Rant: Inventions are stealing our jobs
By Stevie HarrisionOnce upon a time inventors came up with crazy devices to make life easier for us, inventions made everyday tasks simple. But now, not content with improving our lives, they have started stealing our jobs!
Look at the prolific author, Philip M Parker, he has quite pile of publications to his name - 85,000 to be exact - that's even more than that elusive author ‘Anon’
The thing is though, our ubber author Parker he didn’t really 'write' any of them, they were all put together using a fancy computer program. It's not exactly fair is it?
Then again, who can blame him when his titles include 'Report on Wood Toilet Seats' and 'Chinese Prawn Crackers in Japan.' The question is though, how long can it be before the bestselling novel on display at the bookstore was written by Mr. Apple MacAuthor?
At least you can go out and get a meal with a nice human smile, unless you happen to be in Germany where one restaurant has done away with waiting staff and are instead sending food down from the kitchen on roller coaster style tracks. Not really worth the tip ... unless they can get back up again.
It seems that the more inventive and innovative we become, the more the world doesn’t seem to need us.
Your sat-nav means you don't need to think about how to get to the supermarket and once you are there the self service checkouts means there is no-one to talk to and that someone else has been replaced by a machine. And all this is only if we can actually be bothered to leave home rather than ordering everything online.
Follow this train of thought and the world becomes very similar to those depressing science fiction movies, a world where everything still functions perfectly but the people disappeared long ago. Personally I would prefer to keep the human touch.
At least you can go out and get a meal with a nice human smile, unless you happen to be in Germany where one restaurant has done away with waiting staff and are instead sending food down from the kitchen on roller coaster style tracks. Not really worth the tip ... unless they can get back up again.
It seems that the more inventive and innovative we become, the more the world doesn’t seem to need us.
Your sat-nav means you don't need to think about how to get to the supermarket and once you are there the self service checkouts means there is no-one to talk to and that someone else has been replaced by a machine. And all this is only if we can actually be bothered to leave home rather than ordering everything online.
Follow this train of thought and the world becomes very similar to those depressing science fiction movies, a world where everything still functions perfectly but the people disappeared long ago. Personally I would prefer to keep the human touch.
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Fancy a job at the Mirror?
Nice photo btw old chap!