[luke]

I‘m not overlooking that. I suspect that organisations and clubs will form to preserve the past, in the same way that there are people who still ride horses or drive horse drawn carriages, and steam engines these days – themselves pleasurable but outdated modes of transport. You seem to be accusing me of being the driving force behind AI, I’m merely predicting the way things are changing. However I suspect that such activities will not be permitted on roads mixed with AI traffic in the same way that former means of transport are banned from today’s motorways.

As for life pleasures, AI will result in more and more leisure time so there is likely to be an upsurge in stuff to do. The downside is going to be how people can afford to live let alone pursue them without jobs and income? As I alluded to above I predict a return to Rome’s Dole system, or something similar, whereby the few ultra wealthy owners of the AI infrastructure will pay most of the taxes in order to support the vast number unemployed with all the political and autocratic implications of such a system.

It’s actually a nightmare future unless the inevitable redundancy of the majority of human beings is addressed, and addressed soon. We are staring to see this already with Union unease at the speed at which jobs like train drivers and guards are under threat.

Don’t shoot the messenger.

[luke]

I keep hearing everyone saying this, but I just can’t see it working anytime soon. I keep a load of stuff in my car all the time, so how do you get around the need to have personal belongings being left in the car when these smart cars are supposedly going to drive us around therefore making car ownership a thing of the past.

@blurty You will have to learn to adjust. There are loads of people without their own cars now who cope with transporting personal belongings.

I’m not saying AI has got to happen, but that it is already happening, and the pace is quickening. I am surprised that you are saying this. You are half my age, yet it is your generation which is leading the onward rush into AI. Generally it’s the dye hard old fogies of my generation who tend to resist change!

[luke]

Your vision for the future sounds depressingly bland

@sam The future with A1 is very depressing when it comes to jobs, but the forward development of it seems unstopable. People will eventually be unable to earn a salary because there will be very few jobs.

Society may have to resort to the idea introduced by the ancient Romans whereby the State pays it’s citizens an allowance to exist. The Romans called it the “Dole”

[luke]

@sam Yes, I consider it bland that my father could have retained his independence when he became to ill to drive. I consider it bland that my friend with limited vision would gain the ability to travel by car at will like many people. I don’t actually have any more friends with conditions limiting their driving but there are a lot of people out there who stand to benefit.

How many man-hours are lost due to drivers sitting in traffic jams in the UK per day? I’m going to estimate on the order of 100,000 man hours per day. It’s very bland that those drivers will then be able to read a book, phone a relative or turn their seat round 180 deg and talk with their children in the back. Golly it all sounds so awful.

[luke]

The AI revolution will solve parking problems not just for hospitals but everywhere as car ownership becomes a thing of the past and driverless electric cars, buses and trains will become our main modes of transport along with shanks ponies and bicycles. Like it or not, I believe it is the future.

[luke]

I have had plantar fasciits and it resulted in my tendons eventually giving way over night to the point my arches collapse and my feet are now rolling in and have flat feet. I went through horrid pain and bought some rubber heel arches which helped a lot.

Now I have orthotic arches in my shoes, but without I have trouble running and that causes knee pain due to the angle of my feet.

Get some support before the ligaments tear like mine did as it will effect your gait as well as the pain and disability you get

[luke]

@emma you’re probably right.

Maybe lash up some sort of nappies out of a Tesco bag and some gaffer tape?

[luke]

Have you considered providing a litter tray

or a cork?

[luke]

My brain hurts with all this streaming terminology. I have a Samsung tv and a synology nas box. As far as I am aware,the NAS box can transcode but I don’t know how to set this up or if it is set up out of the box.

However I do know that my TV can access the NAS box but for some reason it can not play all the video formats I have on the NAS box.

I just don’t know where to begin with this transcoding subject.

[luke]

@dave I have always been a man of science. Science is to show us what is true and what not, or so many believe.

Some people say that science shows that there is a god. That is plainly a lie. Some people say that science shows that there is no god. This is a lie also. Science does not show any of these things.

If you look at the science of 200 years ago, what they believed to be facts and truths, most of those facts and truths have turned out to be false. New theories have come to replace the old ones. In current days a lot of people want to believe that we are really smart and know it all. But is this really true? In 200 years, most likely the people from that time will look at what we know now, and conclude that what we consider facts and truths to be mostly wrong, replaced by new facts and truths.

What this shows me is that nobody can claim that there is nothing ‘out there’. Even a man of science has to conclude; we just dont know. That is why I personally try to keep an open mind, there are a lot of things out there, still to discover.

My personal view on life and ‘life after death’:

I have lost people close to me, some of them were very young. One thing that I do know, and which is of some comfort to me, is that I believe that these people live on, through us. Their memory, what they have shown you, what they have teached you, how they influenced how you are now. In this way your mother lives on, through you, and all of the people that she touched in her life. In the same way we, in time, will live on in the lives that we touch. That is why it is so important to live a good life and try to be as good as possible for the people around us. And although I am not a religious man, this is why I try to follow the main message from the bible: Love thy neighbour as thy self.