In 10 years time

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi There

I have dyslexic contributors but after a couple of articles I start to know their spelling mistakes.

There are several contributors who have this or perhaps similar problems but the overal article quality is high.

I don't alter the spelling in posts and I doubt the other moderators do but if anyone would like a post checked before or after publishing it I am sure we could do it.

regards David

[NJHParticipant @njh]

Poor spelling is not a problem – the important thing is to convey information clearly.

What really grates with me though is bad language – totally unnecessary in my view and it downgrades the poster and the poster's point in my eyes.

Don't get me wrong I'm not a prude but I just find it totally inappropriate on a public forum.

Norman

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Currently we mix ancient lathes with latest IT technology. If this continues wIth multiple cameras and massive internet bandwidth instead of describing how we built something perhaps we will just invite people to put on a headset and telepresence themselves into our workshop to relive the experience. No need to be tied to a keyboard or screen with voice recognition and text to speech and head up displays mounted in the virtual reality headset.

Yet we will still be using old lathes basicly the same as 100 years ago.

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

For those of us who like to learn the written word is still best.

Books, the fountain of knowledge are still king

Nowadays we can scan them in and scroll through hundreds of pages an hour if we want, while searching for hits within hundreds of books at the same time

We aint seen nothin' yet

[Danny M2ZParticipant @dannym2z]

10 years, such a long time when I was 7 years old but so short when I think back to 2003.

I predict that every post (like this one is already) will be harvested, stored in some snooping database and used to profile a person. Mention a 'trigger' word like 'terrorsist' and one is already on the radar. Ask about druugs or Semitext and one is zeroed in. (I can spell btw, just don't want to trigger the snoops computers). WTF, this post is already stored. Welcome to the digital age.

* Daaaanny M *

[jason udallParticipant @jasonudall57142]

Belive me Danee.if gee cee haich q could be fooled by mis speeling then they would have failed years ago…if google can guess at the word as you go then the spooks are quite able to do the same ( maybe even using google themselves ) .

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

It's easy for humans to fool computers because computers are only electronic clockwork mechanisms and have no understanding or comprehension of context

only blatantly simple communications can be searched successfully

[jason udallParticipant @jasonudall57142]

Ady..like email.text. speach.video ( face recognition
Lip reading )

Big brother is watching reading listening and taking notes

Edited By jason udall on 10/10/2013 14:53:19

[NJHParticipant @njh]

Then he must be pretty bored with this thread by now!

N

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

I went "jock" on my posts at the BBC around 5 years ago for a laff and got banned bigtime

Its disney matter whit ye wanna da fur the shurt term cos at thi endae thi dae thirs a bunchs fowk wha ken whits gaen oan ut thi time un wiy jist hae ah bit oh a laff at thi time pal so wha gives a dam abot stuf thits oan the goa at that point an we got tae think aboot the stuff faer the the future peeul who think this stuff is what matters an it's no a big deal for sum folk but the fowk who kent whas goin on. Ah dinnae ken whit the trubble is but thirs ah bit uv un ishoo between sumow the fowk wha ha thi unionist side an the fowk wha want tae tak the nationalist side an there's a muckle bunch o' issues whits goan to be all over the news fur at least the nixt few years

…I can do this stuff for hours if ya want…

it's only basic interpretation

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

And if ye start tae make a habit 'o it thirs a bitaye problem becase ye suddinly start tea dae it as a standird waye 'o lookin at thi way wirds are put a'gither an the geyz whae run the basic system start tae git a bit scarde 'cos it's now the waye we saye it an noat the waye we spelt it

To accept that "computers rule the world" is to accept that we are living in a a world run by clockwork instead of a world run by genetic darwinism

Guess who will win… just as it has in the last 10 million years…

[Cyril BonnettParticipant @cyrilbonnett24790]

Posted by Ady1 on 10/10/2013 14:42:23:

It's easy for humans to fool computers because computers are only electronic clockwork mechanisms and have no understanding or comprehension of context

only blatantly simple communications can be searched successfully

Very easy to fool them its called an on/off switch, saved me buying a new computer many a time

Its nice to see someone post in a dialect that many think of as dead or dying out, I know ten years ago a mate used to start his letters to me with "fit like loon" in the next ten years who knows if we will even have or be able to afford electricity, treadle lathe anyone?

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

Oan wir goanne get thi oosual stuf aboot thi jocks bein' a pain in thi ass foar the uther guyz whae rin this cuntry but intil thi endo thi day wir gonna be stuk wth win anithir an sumwun is gonnae dae sumthin which changez thi status quo

try chucking this at a few BBC immigrant moderators…. no hope…

this post has been removed because our immigrant moderators at 4.22p an hour aint got a clue what the indiginous population is talking about…

Edited By Ady1 on 11/10/2013 00:20:22

[davebParticipant @daveb17630]

Posted by JasonB on 09/10/2013 16:32:40:

Plastic notes were on the news a week or two ago.

In the years all notes will probably be fitted with a chip so they can be tracked and if you get a large number of them they will be asking where they came from, no more "any discount for cash? "

J

Nothing changes really. In the street I lived in as a boy, anyone who paid their rent would get a visit from the police, wanting to know where they got the money from.

Dave

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

There's legal and not so legal tender

I get a load of non-legal pound coins through my hands which flow through the system

Problems are only encountered when you deal with official channels

People aint daft, alternative systems flow alongside official systems in the real world.

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

If the "official" system gave people an "official" fiver for a fake fiver or an "official" pound coin for a fake pound coin then people would hand them in

But it doesn't

So the fakes continue to rotate around inside the system until they are forced out by new currency

[jason udallParticipant @jasonudall57142]

fake coins..save them for parking meters where they belong.

seriously under £1 ..never seen one ( real ones look fake any way..steel )

£1 it is reckoned 10 to 30 % duff in circulation.

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

The notes in the NZ currency have been plastic for a number of years now, OK if you put them through the washing machine, just don't iron them, they shrivel up. Ian S C

[richardandtracyParticipant @richardandtracy]

In the workshop..

Possibly more 3D printers & laser cutters. I'm not convinced there are any other industrial technologies that are looming on the horizon that will have made the transition to the Home Workshop in 10 years. Now, in 50 years maybe we'll all have nano fabricators and will be able to manufacture organic materials simply using the air as our source of raw materials.

The biggest problem to my eyes is the rapid retreat of the UK population from anything that is awkward, requires concentration, time and personal skills. Most people seem to be determined to turn themselves into passive consumers as fast as possible, then whinge about it on their social network of choice.

Regards,

Richard

[jason udallParticipant @jasonudall57142]

Richard..aye

the desire to make a killing not a living…

[davebParticipant @daveb17630]

Posted by Ian S C on 11/10/2013 12:06:10:

The notes in the NZ currency have been plastic for a number of years now, OK if you put them through the washing machine, just don't iron them, they shrivel up. Ian S C

Thing are really bad when you get rubber money, it was bad enough getting rubber cheques.

Dave

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

Dave, they are definitely not worth much these days, The Austrailian's, and a number of other countries also have the plastic bank notes. Ian S C

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

Money could be almost be gone in ten years. Soon the only reason for having it will be to avoid leaving a trail and TBTB will try to ban it.

Having said that, I have assured the future of real money, just like everything else they said would die: not least cheques, writing paper, vinyl records and imperial threads…

Neil

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

Money could be almost be gone in ten years. Soon the only reason for having it will be to avoid leaving a trail and TBTB will try to ban it.

Even when a local currency collapses people quickly turn to an alternative

In Zimbabwe people switched to US dollars and South African Rand

In places like Cyprus and Argentina (and the old USSR) millions of people know that the Government can dip into your bank account any time they fancy and the only truly safe easily exchanged money you can possess is cash

People in Argentina went to bed on Friday with US$1000 in a bank account and woke up on Monday with 1000pesos in their account, courtesy of the government

Edited By Ady1 on 12/10/2013 12:08:05

[Gordon WassParticipant @gordonwass]

I wish I'd bought lots of scrap copper and ally years ago instead of giving money to the licensed robbers.

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