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If smart phones disapeared how would you cope?

TheCatWoman

I would cope fine as I don't have one, they're smarter than me for a start, but I know most people do have them and use them all the time.

How would you do your banking and benefits, could you cope with having to talk to an actual person?

What about if the internet got blasted back 15 years and there was no AI, an internet that was smaller but in many ways friendlier and easier to use. If there were only texts and phone calls and no real social media? No streaming either, you either watched something live or recorded it!

I think I'd be happier and find things easier as I've never really got to grips with technology, I found things hard enough 15 years ago, now many things seem impossible.

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  • I’d be fine. To be honest, I don’t use my smartphone much – emails, text messages, Whatsapp, and calls to/from my wife when out of the house. I keep anything financial strictly separate from the phone. It was originally purchased because a photography course I was doing included a section on smartphone photography (but since then I have found a much better everyday carry camera – the Fujifilm X70).

    I do find AI useful. But you have to remember that it is a servant (a very fast, but unreliable servant) not a master (oops! I nearly wrote hamster). I mostly use it for creating quick subject overviews and literature searches – the sort of thing a research assistant would do if I were fortunate enough to have one (one of my lecturers once described academic research – particularly on the Continent – as a system of megaminds who get the credit and brain slaves who do the donkey work). AI is my brain slave.

    The internet (and particularly social media) would benefit immensely by being blasted back 15 or more years (before the likes of Musk and Bezos gained such a stranglehold).

  • in reply to Wordsmith
    Wordsmith said:
    by being blasted back 15 or more years (before the likes of Musk and Bezos gained such a stranglehold

    Indeed! I used to enjoy GeoCities and there didn't seem so much dissing on chat sites.

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