The future is not new technology the future is people and jobs thank god the underground is going on strike to help the disabled and make the London under ground is still a place you can feel safe because there are staff around the call center model of life is killing me and any one over the age of 18 you cant get a straight answer any where to their questions my 90 year old father cant function any more not because of physical or mental ability’s but because the technology of life is beyond him as it is many older people if you don’t know how to use a computer or a mobile phone you cannot pay your bills or get your central heating fixed or any number of things so you become dependent on your younger relatives or friends or care givers if you have them or can afford them it makes you vulnerable and at risk. Even though you are still mentally capable.
Love the irony of this, via-a-vis the medium of presentation
That’s what I mean my dad cant make these comments for him self he cant use a computer he shakes so much he can just about type and sign stuff when he has to try and use press this button stuff he cant do it quick enough for the automated services and throws the phone across the room in frustration then his shakes get worse but his brain still active he still gets mad about political and social stuff much the same as I do Blames me and my generation for letting it happen. I ask my self did I let it happen? I embraced it! I but little realizedImage0297 that what had gone before would be largely wiped out and leave many crippled in a bureaucratic world of e-mail on line job hunting, tax returns, banking and shopping.
How many people over the age of 60 have a broad band internet contention or know how to use it if they had it how to set up their lap top, tablet I pad or pc. For many it is beyond them and their comprehension. Making them beholden to there grand children if they have any as a lot of the people I know who are 40 to 50 don’t even know how to use the net its becoming a separate society . Let alone if you live in many of the places in the UK that you cannot get a signal or connection if you can afford one. The picture is  of the farm I helped out on there is no running water no electricity but people live there and have jobs and stuff. There is no internet connection there. So how do you tax your car register for this that and the other. Just recently one of the people living there tried to pay their mobile phone bill at the local mobile phone shop in Tunbridge Wells they would not accept cash you have to pay by direct debit or over the net with your credit card. so what happens to those who dont have a bank account no credit card are they just to be left out of British society ?

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