Predicting the Future

[Hypnotic Chimera]

I remember having a blackberry. I could only conclude that whoever designed it had toothpicks for fingers, and remarkable eyesight.
The girl I worked with at the time could type on the thing at warp speed, just using her thumbs.
Meanwhile I'm poking away at the damn thing and cursing because I keep hitting the wrong key, and peering at the screen like Mr Magoo

I, too, have fingers like pigs teets.
Maybe trying to start taking up woodwork was a bad idea!

 

[Hypnotic Chimera]

I agree with you Jacob!

Very poignant.

In a thread entitled "predicting the future" - who could possibly have predicted that?

 

[Scruples]

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Well, the horse is still around and the ICE is fading.

 

[Jester129]

@Jacob, may I respectfully ask, is your smartphone beeping every time you press a button? If so, you need to go into the settings and untick the boxes that are ticked one at a time, as I think you have a box ticked within 'Sound and Vibration' somewhere. HTH

 

[selectortone]

Jacob, may I respectfully ask, is your smartphone beeping every time you press a button? If so, you need to go into the settings and untick the boxes that are ticked one at a time, as I think you have a box ticked within 'Sound and Vibration' somewhere. HTH

Just give it to a 10-year old and tell them what you need it to do.

 

[Jacob]

@Jacob, may I respectfully ask, is your smartphone beeping every time you press a button? If so, you need to go into the settings and untick the boxes that are ticked one at a time, as I think you have a box ticked within 'Sound and Vibration' somewhere. HTH

It beeps randomly when it's just sitting on the table. Seems to relate to incoming this-that-&-the-other, including new posts on here. But I've managed to switch it off!

 

[Jacob]

Just give it to a 10-year old and tell them what you need it to do.

Tried that but they just go into a trance, poking away at buttons and smiling to themselves.

 

[AJB Temple]

If we lose the bees, we lose the planet - and bees are right now in unprecedented decline (pesticides and other farming practice - ironic that our technological progress in increasing food production capacity could ultimately trigger the consequence that we have no food!)

I think the bee thing is a good point, but quite a difficult one to pin down. We have kept bees for several years and certainly in the UK I don't think pesticides is a significant factor any more. Monoculture can be a problem, but we do have vast crops of oil producing plants and they by and large encourage bees. Climate change is a large factor I think. When we have very wet springs, the pollinators struggle to get going and tend to stay clustered, not leaving the hive. Constant cold and rain is unhelpful to flying insects. When we do get a hot summer, this tends to create a dearth of pollen (ie "no flow" which only picks up again as autumn approaches - and once again we get cold and wet.

We also have a growing problem with pests and diseases which kill whole hives. Foul brood seems to be becoming an issue and we have not got a grip of the Asian hornet problem. However, it is undeniable that windscreens these days are clean, so insect populations must be diminishing. Mankind is likely to respond as we usually do by trying to apply technology such as genetically engineering for self pollination or even continuing the development of micre pollinator drones. It's the destroy and change method.

 

[Jacob]

I think the bee thing is a good point, but quite a difficult one to pin down. We have kept bees for several years and certainly in the UK I don't think pesticides is a significant factor any more. Monoculture can be a problem, but we do have vast crops of oil producing plants and they by and large encourage bees. Climate change is a large factor I think. When we have very wet springs, the pollinators struggle to get going and tend to stay clustered, not leaving the hive. Constant cold and rain is unhelpful to flying insects. When we do get a hot summer, this tends to create a dearth of pollen (ie "no flow" which only picks up again as autumn approaches - and once again we get cold and wet.

We also have a growing problem with pests and diseases which kill whole hives. Foul brood seems to be becoming an issue and we have not got a grip of the Asian hornet problem. However, it is undeniable that windscreens these days are clean, so insect populations must be diminishing. Mankind is likely to respond as we usually do by trying to apply technology such as genetically engineering for self pollination or even continuing the development of micre pollinator drones. It's the destroy and change method.

Apparently the scarcity of bees isn't quite as catastrophic as expected because it turns out that there's a whole range of other insects doing pollination, often at night when not noticed, particularly moths.
It'll be their turn next! The bigger varieties are the ones which most used to be picked up on windscreens, and are obviously in decline.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I think the bee thing is a good point, but quite a difficult one to pin down. We have kept bees for several years and certainly in the UK I don't think pesticides is a significant factor any more. Monoculture can be a problem, but we do have vast crops of oil producing plants and they by and large encourage bees. Climate change is a large factor I think. When we have very wet springs, the pollinators struggle to get going and tend to stay clustered, not leaving the hive. Constant cold and rain is unhelpful to flying insects. When we do get a hot summer, this tends to create a dearth of pollen (ie "no flow" which only picks up again as autumn approaches - and once again we get cold and wet.

We also have a growing problem with pests and diseases which kill whole hives. Foul brood seems to be becoming an issue and we have not got a grip of the Asian hornet problem. However, it is undeniable that windscreens these days are clean, so insect populations must be diminishing. Mankind is likely to respond as we usually do by trying to apply technology such as genetically engineering for self pollination or even continuing the development of micre pollinator drones. It's the destroy and change method.

We get neither extremes of heat or cold and speaking to people I suspect by far the biggest problem is disease.

Incidentally, the way more aerodynamic design of modern cars usually takes the credit for fewer insects on screens.

We have apparently 270 species of bee in the UK, so there are probably millions we never see or notice.

 

[Scruples]

Tried that but they just go into a trance, poking away at buttons and smiling to themselves.

Checking your social media history, perhaps?

 

[Thingybob]

The opposite side of the Moebius strip?
Apparently deja vu is actually hindsight from a split second earlier.

To be good at hindsight don't you need eye in your ***

 

[RobinBHM]

I predict another assassination attempt on the orange one.

If you ramp up tensions across a whole nation, don’t be surprised if you trigger t somebody with a mental health issues.

Trump promised energy prices cut by 50% I predict that won’t happen

 

[Jacob]

I predict another assassination attempt on the orange one.

If you ramp up tensions across a whole nation, don’t be surprised if you trigger t somebody with a mental health issues.

He seems to have triggered 3,510,389 people with mental health issues.
The lunatics have taken over the asylum.

 

[AJB Temple]

I presume his protection levels with be ramped up hugely as P elect and then President especially after they made such a ludicrous mess of it during the campaign. Must admit I thought the Russians would have assassinated Zelenskyy by now, so it must be not so easy to get to well protected heads of state.