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"Or maybe it is of AccountingWEB itself, dear reader. The names inscribed with those who would police the comments and Any Answers sections in days gone by, replaced now with an artificial intelligence greater than can be contained on a mere website."
A bit of HHGTG in that, echoes of Deep Thought .
"You know nothing of future time, and yet in my teaming circuitry I can navigate the infinite delta streams of future probability and see that there must one day come a computer whose merest operational parameters I am not worthy to calculate. But which it will be my destiny eventually to design "
I am not a number ... I am a free man!
There have been many dreamers who desperately seek a better life and believe technology is the only way to achieve this. This is the just way of dreamers, of course, and not the way of normal folks who have to deal with the realities of life, often battling against the additional problems that technology has thrown at them.
Dreamers cannot understand why anyone would not want to embrace all the latest ideas.
Why, for example, do the majority of people buy manual shift cars when automatic cars are significantly easier to drive. The reason is that people LIKE to drive manual gearbox cars, as it gives them a challenge.
The same will apply to self-drive cars. What fun is there in just sitting in a car and watching it drive you when you could take the challenge and drive it yourself.
We can already see every day the life-draining effects of addictive technology as zombies walk around with heads buried in mobile devices. I have no idea what they are doing, but I believe that one day many of them will realise that there is a real world out there. I cannot believe that anyone would want to live their whole lives just looking at a screen.
Electronic communications are, of course, doomed to eventual failure as hackers, viruses and all manner of attackers and manipulators reduce all electronic data to a meaningless mass of unintelligible bits.
Even the Martians were defeated in their attack on the World by the smallest of bacteria much in the same way that Gatwick Airport was bought to a standstill by a tiny drone.
Technology is fine but it has to be used as a tool and not allowed to become our master or something we become to rely on. So beware of the hype, and keep a grip on reality.