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Another basic trading system gone. https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2001/S00004/nz-post-joins-cheque-withdrawal-from-end-of-february.htm
Soon the machines will run everything.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/latest/117932640/home-of-the-future-goes-a-lot-further-than-alexa-and-a-smart-fridge
and
https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/the-press/20200107/281762746186505
and
https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/houses/104318120/future-of-the-home
Are you going to have choice, that ephemeral chimera that we were assured we wanted so much that we had our previous confused life wrested from us? The extract from ‘The future of the home’ indicates a total take-over and probably very little room for personal choice of less technology.
Makes me think of:
In the year 5555
Your arms hangin’ limp at your sides
Your legs got nothin’ to do
Some machine’s doin’ that for you
In the year 6565
You won’t need no husband, won’t need no wife
You’ll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/zagerevans/intheyear2525exordiumandterminus.html
and (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN-0xKZwJC8
https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/houses/104318120/future-of-the-home
What if the entire roof and walls of your house are disguised solar panels that generate all your electricity?
What if your house recognises you and opens the door to let you enter?
Imagine your new house arrives on site and is erected in a matter of days. And it’s so well designed and insulated, it never needs heating or cooling.
Imagine not needing to shop for groceries, either, because your fridge and pantry do that for you.
While the local bully boys and wokey girls are bagging Jacinda enthusiastically, to the resounding applause of all Nats, our neighbours in the Pacific are calling it as they see it:
“She’s almost everything that the usual Pacific leader is not,” Pareti told the Guardian. “She is a woman, she is young, and she is a mother. Yet she can be firm when she needs to be, and emphatic when required. She is very open, candid and transparent in her style of leadership, a refreshing change to the traditional Pacific patriarchal style of governance.”
and, “She has got everything that I guess one would wish upon a Pacific Island leader. She listens, she is decisive and she always tries to bring people together and not too divisive.”
She has been named Pacific Person of the Year by a regional magazine, only the second person of non-Pacific heritage to ever be awarded the title.
The Islands Business magazine, a regional publication based in Fiji, said Ardern had shown a commitment to the Pacific region by advocating for urgent action on climate change at the Pacific Islands Forum in Tuvalu last year.
The magazine’s editor, Samisoni Pareti said Ardern’s skills at “negotiation, diplomacy and her charisma” had saved the day for the Pacific Islands at the forum.
Guardian link here
On the Left the details and the big picture matter. I’ve seen a lot of between the two since 1984.
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