News

Thank you all this has been really helpful. No one I know understands this issue I have

I'd happily live without a tv but my husband likes tv. As we have one I mainly watch old movies as I find that their less upsetting

I would watch a possitive news show

Hehe. With you. My car has active lane assist which is supposed to steer for you and keep you in lane. It is so flaky and drifts out of lane so much. I could have written the code better myself. When you consider what we can do, we are a long way off replicating it fully.

Having said there are a lot of roles that will be replaced by software and robotics, just not on the level that the hype portrays.

I do often ponder what will happen to the Tesla driver reading his newspaper on autopilot when I have painted dashed lines drifting off the motorway...

Me too - AI, self-drive cars - pah - believe it when I see it.    Also - when they trot out the old 'robots will take all our jobs' BS.

Or the hilarious 'Fusion power will be a thing in 10 years'.

This is true. I am a systems engineer and what you hear on the news headline can be ripped to pieces. I especially hate any reference to AI and it does not yet exist. Loads of companies are touting AI based systems, but nobody has yet developed AI. It is simply a buzz term hooked onto to try and sell stuff. It does wind me up...

I find this too. I like the sport and science aspects but real world events or tragedies are often distressing for me. It's hard to pick and choose which stories in the news I can cope with so I just pursue specific topics in my own time so that I avoid it. I only recently got a tv after around 2 years without one and was shocked and upset at some of the things that happen in the world so quickly stopped watching news. 

I find most of the tech news to be fake too - mostly trying to hype investment into a non-starter idea or lots of pretty simulations about what we'll be doing in 50 years time or someone selling some garbage that no-one needs or wants.  

I was reading the recent IET magazine and there's lots of dramatised propaganda stories in it hyping global warming/cooling/climate change where I'm pretty sure the authors are really only looking for research money.

I like to see techy or science stories, but so much of the news is doom and gloom, and these days the same old story to grind you down on a daily basis. I keep saying I am going to stop watching it. I am sure we would all be happier if we didn't watch it. Better still, a good news channel, with funny shaped vegetables and happy stories, and stories showing what amazing things we are doing in the world of science and tech.

I find all the fake news, advertorial, publicity releases and government propaganda that masquerades as 'news' these days to be incredibly annoying and agitating - so I just avoid it.

Yes - it's pretty common amongst aspies I know.

I, happend to be an avid follower of the news - I think that is just me trying to make sense of them human beings out there. I have also always read alot of books (fiction and now older, non fiction) as a way of trying to suss things out and understand human behaviour.