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Smart technologies are too much

Thpsguy

Ever feel like we relie too much on smart techblike why do syoeemarket chilllers and lower grids need to be run remotly causing cyber attack concerns 

Even TVs don't need it we can just use smart boxes for catch up stuff and it's going too far woru video games needing updates all the time 

The internet just complicates things 

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  • The Microsoft outage yesterday and today is causing me all sorts of problems.

    A payment to a company on their email link has been showing as pending on my bank account. It’s a custom order for necessary work to my house. I use Apple but the company is probably not receiving my emails because they haven’t replied.

    Emails to some others haven’t been received. Fortunately, only one email is urgent.

    My prescription is lost in the system somewhere between the GP Surgery and the Pharmacy. 

    Links to online products are corrupted. 

    Online and email technology isn’t a good thing to rely on, but there are no viable alternatives. I wonder how much it would cost the country to reconnect the old telephone wiring so that people would have an alternative. At least fax machines would work.  Can’t cost that much compared to the billions that goes missing through a corrupt core of tax evaders.

    My smart phone and other ‘smart’ devices aren’t smart enough to fix the issue. Unless Microsoft fixes the issue soon, I’ll  be too exhausted, stressed and behind with things to switch my smart TV on. 

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    It isn't the fault of the medium but the humans making up the organisations who are meant to be maintaining the infrastructure for its operation. 

    I'd be the last to ever speak out on behalf of nasty little touchscreen phones and the like, but it would be dishonest to pretend that the problem is with the devices.  It is with the people, and the people have always been part of the process. 

  • in reply to SotiCoto
    ArchaeC said:
    My smart phone and other ‘smart’ devices aren’t smart enough to fix the issue. Unless Microsoft fixes the issue soon, I’ll  be too exhausted, stressed and behind with things to switch my smart TV on

    I was rather “tongue in cheek” with that comment. I’m aware that humans are responsible for the development and function of smart phones.

    I was very stressed due to the effect of the Microsoft outage because it led to delays on urgent work on my home, so I directed my contempt for enforced dependency on the internet at the smart phone. 

  • in reply to leveller61
    leveller61 said:
    especially given the hollowing out of employment and ens***ification of the internet...

    I do agree. 

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