I love a well worded, entertaining, easy to identify with rant, which is exactly what Mark Sage provided me with.
B&Q - You broke my heart is a story that could be applied to many large stores across the UK with the cost-cutting, 'time saving' automated tills popping up in everyone's daily lives. They nearly pushed me to the brink in Asda and I daren't even ask my dear old grandma what she makes of these devices, the concept of mobile phones still defies belief. I'll pop this on the list of subjects to avoid discussing when visiting, along with the Japanese, Gordon Brown and the cost of goat's milk.
This all quite nicely leads me into a subject that has been shrouding my mind of late with both foreboding dread and ridicule. After watching Eagle Eye on Sunday night (the computer's will take over the world theme) alongside I, Robot, The Terminator and other such films, I flippantly voiced, if I were a computer, how I would defeat the human race.
Based upon apps and sat navs and all these technological devices to make everyday easy - when it comes to the next generation (of humans) will they have basic map reading skills, or come to think about it even a map? In these blockbuster films the story has to include, to truly send the world into kaos, is the taking down of the mobile phone network. Well that's my Grandma as the next heroine then, she will teach the world to once again survive without it. In fact, break open the Shreddies factory and those computers will be quaking in their boots.
Wait a minute, I did have a point. So you dump humans in the middle of nowhere, no food, no water (no maps!) and they merely perish. Job done.
Hang on, is that a mobile phone I hear ringing? Ah yes, it's Hollywood. How can they get in touch with Shreddies? They don't seem to have an email address or phone........
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