What will the 10's be remembered for?

[P-Jay]

PAULJ5555 said:

P-Jay said:

"I can't believe the US voted for a Reality TV Star to be president"

Ronald Regan was an actor before the White House 1981
Arnold Schwarzenegger also became Governor 2003

Also Trump had a few cameo acting parts before reality tv.

What makes them all so different.

I think most people thought "I can't believe California has elected a Movie Star to be Governor" in 2003 as well.

As for old Ronnie Reagan, yeah more than a few people thought "I can't believe they've elected a TV Cowboy as President" in the 80s, but he was a politician longer than he was an actor.

[coldel]

In terms of negatives...

-Racism, Xenophobic and violence enducing commentary being legitimised by the leadership in many countries
-Adults sharing Meme's thinking they are genuinely true, the dumbing down of the population away from proper debate to 'I will just leave this here [insert link/image]' has been shocking
-The sinking realisation that we are fking up the planet being pushed away because its too much effort to do anything about it
-The understanding that humans are by their nature self serving, cannot change from this and ultimately will lead to our end (appreciate this isn't restricted to the 10s)
-Any attempt to make more of the Star Wars franchise (aside from Rogue One)

Amazon Prime and Netflix have been brilliant though

[Catatafish]

durbster said:

You're making me nostalgic. I haven't heard somebody so inexplicably furious at advances in mobile phone technology since the mid-2000s.

Just today, I used my phone to:
- quickly grab a photo of a poster with a useful phone number on it
- chat to some friends in Australia
- flick on the torch to see where the puddles were when walking the dog down an unlit path
- find a restaurant to meet up with family (all organised on mobile phones)
- share a document containing a bunch of information with multiple people
- show people at the pub where I was going on holiday
- show them photos I took at their wedding in the summer
- switch on the lights at home when the sun went down
- set the heating so the house was warm when I got back

Perhaps you carry a full size camera, a letter writing set, a torch, an atlas, a phone book and fifty seven photo albums with you at all times but I would say that's not cheaper, easier or more reliable than a phone, and it's no reason to be angry at people who appreciate the luxury of having it all in a handheld device.

I know some people love to pretend there was this super social world before mobile phones when every bus journey was full of chat and laughter but that's bks. I was there and nothing's changed, other than socialising is easier now because of the technology.

Although, if you find your friends prefer to browse their phones than speak to you... erm... well ...

Living in the future is awesome and most of it hangs off these small black rectangles.

These are all mundane things, all of which you can live without and no one really cares about. If your phone could open a wormhole to Mars, then it could actually be considered amazing.

[StanleyT]

durbster said:

StanleyT said:

That is my point. It's the encapsulation of things that could be done otherwise, simpler, cheaper, easier, more reliably and with devices you still have that makes mobile 'phones seems so masturbari satiat se amicos suos, et impress. Glad you agree. You could do all the things you do in other ways, including, interacting in a civilised manner with your other human beings face to face etc.

You're making me nostalgic. I haven't heard somebody so inexplicably furious at advances in mobile phone technology since the mid-2000s.

Just today, I used my phone to:
- quickly grab a photo of a poster with a useful phone number on it
- chat to some friends in Australia
- flick on the torch to see where the puddles were when walking the dog down an unlit path
- find a restaurant to meet up with family (all organised on mobile phones)
- share a document containing a bunch of information with multiple people
- show people at the pub where I was going on holiday
- show them photos I took at their wedding in the summer
- switch on the lights at home when the sun went down
- set the heating so the house was warm when I got back

Perhaps you carry a full size camera, a letter writing set, a torch, an atlas, a phone book and fifty seven photo albums with you at all times but I would say that's not cheaper, easier or more reliable than a phone, and it's no reason to be angry at people who appreciate the luxury of having it all in a handheld device.

I know some people love to pretend there was this super social world before mobile phones when every bus journey was full of chat and laughter but that's bks. I was there and nothing's changed, other than socialising is easier now because of the technology.

Although, if you find your friends prefer to browse their phones than speak to you... erm... well ...

Living in the future is awesome and most of it hangs off these small black rectangles.

Call this a one-all draw?

Did you read the earlier post where I said I live in a mobile black-spot.

I'm not allowed mobiles where I work.

Originally in the 1990s they were banned verbatim.

In the 2000s they were begrudgingly allowed in.

In the 2010s when the works network administrators (mobile data went through our boxes) realised how much people were, as their PCs wouldn't let them use the internet, using their 'phone to do it (on average - three hours a day per employee was been lost on the internet - high tech ex civil service company), said "phones to be left outside in cars / secure lockers; work is for work.

And re home, to clarify, not in the country, in a suburb of a 250,00 town that perhaps when we get 5G we might get mobile reception. I paid up for a proper fibre broadband connection to my property there. I reckon over 20 years I have spent around £1,300 (CAPEX) and renegotiating deal often less then £14 month (OPEX) on PC, Modem, Routers, Cameras, car Sat Navs, car Cams, security cams, a printer and ink etc etc.

My neighbour, daily, berates me he is paying Tesco broadband (??) nearly £400 a year and £35 a month for his iPhone and he can't use his iPhone at home nor download movies! over twenty years I'm much better off than he is (about £3,800 over two decades, or in PH speak, have saved enough cash to hammer 24,840 frozen sausages into his lawn), albeit, carrying my printer to Crewe Bashforth Hall Station to print my season ticket off everyday is getting a bit tiresome. Ha-ha.

Actually, you've just made me realise mobile 'phones are the greatest. They extract large amounts of cash from the cumulative proletariat millions, without them as individuals realising they are not getting the value of everything, but they know the price of nothing whilst the Borisbourogise laugh.

(PS I'm being generous with the 1-1 draw offer, I see up the post I have a few other peeps (4) on that Apollo / Saturn 5 was the greatest invention of Mankind, but there is yet no sender for mobiles in 2010s being up their in the same leagues).


Sent from my Nokia 9210.

[GliderRider]

durbster said:

You're making me nostalgic. I haven't heard somebody so inexplicably furious at advances in mobile phone technology since the mid-2000s.

Just today, I used my phone to:
- quickly grab a photo of a poster with a useful phone number on it
- chat to some friends in Australia
- flick on the torch to see where the puddles were when walking the dog down an unlit path
- find a restaurant to meet up with family (all organised on mobile phones)
- share a document containing a bunch of information with multiple people
- show people at the pub where I was going on holiday
- show them photos I took at their wedding in the summer
- switch on the lights at home when the sun went down
- set the heating so the house was warm when I got back

Hi Tamara E, hope you're ok hun, was it all insured?

[durbster]

Catatafish said:

These are all mundane things, all of which you can live without and no one really cares about. If your phone could open a wormhole to Mars, then it could actually be considered amazing.

You missed the point. The amazing part is that all that can be done with a tiny slither of glass and plastic that I can pop in my pocket.

If you want something that matters, in the 2010s mobile phones have revolutionised banking in Africa and are used to co-ordinate protests in authoritarian regimes.