Predicting the Future

[TRITON]

Heres a story from the DM. Daily Mail, always getting it wrong,

"Millions giving up on it"
Fabricating much of the story, as ever

 

[RobinBHM]

EVs are the betamax of motoring.

Yeah Elon Musk hasn’t made any money out EVs

 

[artie]

In my limited circle, not one person has said they were fed up with the internet.

A salesman did try to sign me up to something which was going to be better about 20 yrs ago.
But I never heard of him or it since.

 

[Terrytpot]

Seem to recall that boats displaced a volume of water and therein created a hole in the water that was directly in proportion to the amount of money poured into the said hole. Failing to maintain the correct ratio leads to a boat that no longer has the chief characteristic of a boat ie: it floats!

 

[Jameshow]

What? You feed them like you feed boats?

Or aeroplanes

 

[Jacob]

After the bombs drop.
The humans who will survive are those tucked away in the desert and the rainforest.
Western society has virtually zero hope of any significant human survival rate.

Not even bombs - just minor technological failure in a difficult situation. Failure of electricity supply and the carrier pigeon comes into its own!
How have EVs helped the Spaniards dealt with the recent floods? Will Musk develop floating versions?

 

[Amplidyne]

Not even bombs - just minor technological failure in a difficult situation. Failure of electricity supply and the carrier pigeon comes into its own!
How have EVs helped the Spaniards dealt with the recent floods? Will Musk develop floating versions?

Technological failure is the one that scares me.
Anyone else read, "One Second After" by William R. Forstchen?
OK it's a novel (Three in the series), but it's a very believable apocalyptic scenario in America.
If it happened in the UK, we'd be done for I reckon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Second_After

 

[Jacob]

In my limited circle, not one person has said they were fed up with the internet.

Well I'm fed up with smart phones.
I just had another go and bought a Samsung S23. It puts me on Whats App which is handy for the family, I could use it for navigation, the camera is excellent.
Other than that an expensive PITA - it may be a smart phone but its not a mobile, as compared to previous Doro 611, which cost £14 about 10 years ago, still works perfectly, size and shape of a worn out bar of soap, folds up and keeps screen in perfect nick, extremely mobile in that I can go anywhere and do anything with it just tucked away in even the tiniest pocket - it fits the key fob pocket in my Ron Hills and would be impossible to lose and difficult to break even if I fell over in a stoney place.
And the smart f****r keeps beeping for no apparent reason!
I'm going to reconnect with a new number on the Doro - I really need a proper mobile.
Anybody want to get rich quick? Design something with an easily exchangeable SIM card which you could swap between a proper mobile and a stupid smart-alec phone, as the situation demands!

 

[AJB Temple]

^ Jacob. You can get a second SIM for data which you could use in the smartphone, but you can't clone a phone number to two SIMS. Might help you if you just use the smartphone for data. Not sure if whats app would work on both. My smartphone (iPhone) is pretty easy to take the SIM out - just a prod with a paper clip. It is pretty much mainly used for whats app and satnav.

 

[Jacob]

... My smartphone (iPhone) is pretty easy to take the SIM out - just a prod with a paper clip. ....

Same, but you couldn't do it very often as they are fragile and tiny. It would be good to just swap from one to the other at the drop of a hat. From mobile (Doro) to indoors smart-alec (Samsung) to desk top computer (Apple).
I forecast this as the next major development in "mobile" phone technology!
PS The smart phone is only slightly more mobile than a lap-top - you can use it in a car, bedside, etc but not in a pocket when you are out in the garden, on a bike etc

 

[AJB Temple]

I agree with you Jacob!