Happy Face 29 Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 Apart from mixed reality coming in 5 years, self driving cars being ubiquitous within a decade and AI transforming, home, work, travel, research, city planning and every other aspect of life we probably are at a tech peak, aye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, Happy Face said: Apart from mixed reality coming in 5 years, self driving cars being ubiquitous within a decade and AI transforming, home, work, travel, research, city planning and every other aspect of life we probably are at a tech peak, aye All this talk has been around for decades. Entertainment will get more immersive but that is one of their pet projects to keep you dazed and tired. Self-driving cars have been around since the 50's man. The idea peaked in 1987. But what if anything will it do to actually benefit greater society? They said in the 70's that they would rid Africa of starvation. Lot of this so called new tech are silly gimmicks that will have no material impact on human life as a whole. The billions spent on smart meters will ultimately and with luck come up with savings of about 20 quid a year per household. What has advanced and without question is the military and its ability to kill more cleverly and with greater ferocity. We are absolutely heading for a resource poor future with 90% of the planet living in low tech increasingly toxic environments (look at China, India and part of Africa for pollution). Air quality is going down, water is becoming more scarce and more expensive and most of the food is bad for you. Yeah but you have that shiny car that will drive you to Manchester while you look at google ads on the windscreen. Our only hope is to colonize another planet because within 50/70 years we will have crossed the resources/population threshold and it will be a fast downhill from there. Yet here we are talking about Mars and trying to get there with chemical rockets invented in the 40's. Humanity is beyond parody and will die out or be pared back to tiny settlements of advanced elites while the rest of the population slide back to the stone age. /Zardoz. Edited May 14, 2017 by Park Life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Happy Face 29 Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 6 hours ago, Park Life said: All this talk has been around for decades. Entertainment will get more immersive but that is one of their pet projects to keep you dazed and tired. Self-driving cars have been around since the 50's man. The idea peaked in 1987. But what if anything will it do to actually benefit greater society? They said in the 70's that they would rid Africa of starvation. Lot of this so called new tech are silly gimmicks that will have no material impact on human life as a whole. The billions spent on smart meters will ultimately and with luck come up with savings of about 20 quid a year per household. What has advanced and without question is the military and its ability to kill more cleverly and with greater ferocity. We are absolutely heading for a resource poor future with 90% of the planet living in low tech increasingly toxic environments (look at China, India and part of Africa for pollution). Air quality is going down, water is becoming more scarce and more expensive and most of the food is bad for you. Yeah but you have that shiny car that will drive you to Manchester while you look at google ads on the windscreen. Our only hope is to colonize another planet because within 50/70 years we will have crossed the resources/population threshold and it will be a fast downhill from there. Yet here we are talking about Mars and trying to get there with chemical rockets invented in the 40's. Humanity is beyond parody and will die out or be pared back to tiny settlements of advanced elites while the rest of the population slide back to the stone age. /Zardoz. That's nice, but wasn't the topic technological leaps that can drive economic recovery? I think you should read some Benedict Evans on that... http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/3/20/cars-and-second-order-consequences Even if Apple and Uber recognise all the benefits of theself driving car themselves, the second order consequences that restructure every city could drive economic sustainability for decades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 (edited) There's no point to any kind of economic recovery if you run out of clean air, food and water. As we are doing at an alarming rate. The high end prediction of sustainability on this planet is 10 billion. Food production is very near its limits now. You talk so ignorantly about cars I am stunned. Cars have been the greatest and fastest destruction of energy and raw materials ever invented on this planet. If mankind is to survive they will have to be the first thing to go regardless of how clever they are or their ability to mix cocktails. Edited May 14, 2017 by Park Life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 You been inspired by the return of CT as a socialist champion and trying to match his level with this 180 on pollution? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 6 minutes ago, Happy Face said: You been inspired by the return of CT as a socialist champion and trying to match his level with this 180 on pollution? I can see you've missed the hint in those Guardian articles about how tasty insects can be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30236 Posted May 15, 2017 Share Posted May 15, 2017 I don't think she could be any more bland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30236 Posted May 15, 2017 Share Posted May 15, 2017 More of this from Labour please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 5171 Posted May 15, 2017 Share Posted May 15, 2017 Brilliant from Thornberry - Fallon is a total lightweight by the looks of it but she mullered him there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 17074 Posted May 15, 2017 Share Posted May 15, 2017 Am off to hustings tonight.... the sitting tory here in Poole didn't turn up to the same event in 2015, "too busy" apparently..so I tweeted the lib dem and labour candidates and they've received "assurances" that he's going to turn up. The Tory led council have shut every public toilet in the borough and the dopey Tory voting locals are for a change furious due to this sort of carry on I y gohttps://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4487520/amp/Tourists-using-gardens-Sandbanks-houses-toilet.html Also for the last 50 years the major A&E department for Dorset has been in Poole but that's changing and it's going to Bournemouth, only 7 miles but an hours drive in traffic. Over 300k people in Bournemouth Poole and Christchurch with what will end being one A&E, not to mention the rest of rural east Dorset. He's in for a tricky evening.. ing to get one bomot in the Book of Football Quotations, you had better make it as telling as Steve Archibald's pithy and cynical observation that seems more relevant than ever this past month. "Team spirit," said the Spurs and Barcelona striker, "is an illusion only glimpsed in victory." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3809 Posted May 15, 2017 Author Share Posted May 15, 2017 9 minutes ago, PaddockLad said: Am off to hustings tonight.... the sitting tory here in Poole didn't turn up to the same event in 2015, "too busy" apparently..so I tweeted the lib dem and labour candidates and they've received "assurances" that he's going to turn up. The Tory led council have shut every public toilet in the borough and the dopey Tory voting locals are for a change furious due to this sort of carry on I y gohttps://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4487520/amp/Tourists-using-gardens-Sandbanks-houses-toilet.html Also for the last 50 years the major A&E department for Dorset has been in Poole but that's changing and it's going to Bournemouth, only 7 miles but an hours drive in traffic. Over 300k people in Bournemouth Poole and Christchurch with what will end being one A&E, not to mention the rest of rural east Dorset. He's in for a tricky evening.. ing to get one bomot in the Book of Football Quotations, you had better make it as telling as Steve Archibald's pithy and cynical observation that seems more relevant than ever this past month. "Team spirit," said the Spurs and Barcelona striker, "is an illusion only glimpsed in victory." He won't turn up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 17074 Posted May 15, 2017 Share Posted May 15, 2017 15 minutes ago, Kevin Carr's Gloves said: He won't turn up. I think youre right 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anorthernsoul 1221 Posted May 15, 2017 Share Posted May 15, 2017 Fair play with that one JC. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted May 15, 2017 Share Posted May 15, 2017 Put all the leaders in a Big Brother house together. The only way the public will take politics seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 5171 Posted May 15, 2017 Share Posted May 15, 2017 Is that legit? Brilliant if so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anorthernsoul 1221 Posted May 15, 2017 Share Posted May 15, 2017 6 minutes ago, Rayvin said: Is that legit? Brilliant if so Legit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 34810 Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 Too legit to quit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 17074 Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 Poole hustings update: the Tory turned up, looked simultaneously scared and bored, then proved to be the archetypal Tory prick he always came across as. Then the lid dem fellah called the health secretary "Jeremy Cunt". In a church. In front of its woman rector who was chairing the evening Didn't need to be told the labour wife was a teacher, think she thought we were all 13. Green Party dude whispered but made some good points about nationalising land banks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 5171 Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 9 minutes ago, PaddockLad said: Poole hustings update: the Tory turned up, looked simultaneously scared and bored, then proved to be the archetypal Tory prick he always came across as. Then the lid dem fellah called the health secretary "Jeremy Cunt". In a church. In front of its woman rector who was chairing the evening Didn't need to be told the labour wife was a teacher, think she thought we were all 13. Green Party dude whispered but made some good points about nationalising land banks. Fucking hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 34810 Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 UK politics right there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGingerQuiff 2412 Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 Corbyn's minimum wage plans would effectively take away the incentive for me to stay in my job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4684 Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 BBC man has just ushered away a young lady by the breast! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGingerQuiff 2412 Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 She might like bbc. You on chaturbate again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew 4717 Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 50 minutes ago, TheGingerQuiff said: Corbyn's minimum wage plans would effectively take away the incentive for me to stay in my job How so? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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