I stand corrected then.

I am referring to tap and go at rail stations such as we use in London. I thought that outside of London very few rail services have it.

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Algorithms. They are going to end up deciding everything. How much shopping you need, what you can spend, are you credit worthy ? and ultimately, eventually, court sentencing decisions.

The only trouble is, a human has to design the algorithm, so they are never perfect at decisions. They'll fk something up in a big way eventually.

"The facts have changed", Rishi Sunak

I can’t even sleep without autocorrect so I’m grapefruit for it!

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

Engineer able to work on Electronic, Mechanical and computer systems (hardware and software). I was in X-ray installation, maintenance and repair for the last 14 years. Before that Pre-press imagesetters (Film), plate setters (imaging direct to plate) and before that main frame computers and my first role, Weapons systems.

Each time it seemed like a door was closing another would open. I was constantly told that remote diagnosis would take over my role. 45 years later I've just retired and was still out there plying my trade.

My favourite recent revelation was the remote software upgrade. It would download via the internet and a message would pop up to the user saying patch blah blah is ready to install. It will take 90 minutes. Click here to install or here to defer. DO NOT POWER OFF DURING THE INSTALL. They could only defer 3 times. Then it installed. Unfortunately, it being medical equipment the user thought s***, we can't delay the patient list for 90 minutes. I know I'll turn it off!!!

Queue a 2 day software re-install. Happened repeatedly. I suggested they restrict the downloaded updates to a max of 30 minutes. Anything else is an engineer visit.

Between 1 and 17 December (prior to my last day) I did 79hrs overtime!!!! Including two weekends.

The same thing has happened throughout history. As one industry ends another springs up.

This is true to an extent.

However, there are plenty of examples where it hasn't resulted in the same level of employment at the same wages as well.
From as far back as the industrial revolution to Wilson/Thatcher closing down the pits...A lot of damage is caused by these upheavals.....For example, It's just not reality that all 40 something miners can easily retrain for another job that'll pay well enough or 'learn to code' for example. Many people never recovered from those transitions.

What you are referring to only works if industries are growing and expanding and can service those jobs within the human capital resources that are around.

When you look at the IQ graphs you will see that we have the same number of people within society with an IQ of 85 (which makes them barely employable) as there are with IQs of 130. No one seems to really want to focus upon the unsexy realities of how a first world civilisation actually copes with its problems.

A first world civilisation has to be adapted to all of its people, automation is already having an impact and that impact won't just be on unskilled jobs.

Essentially, the future seems to require less people and nothing we get from our leaders appears to be joined up thinking....careerists and 'here today, gone tomorrow' opportunists.

Edited by Stirlingsays (24 Dec 2022 3.09am)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

I think the concern is that these replacement jobs would also be automated.

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