DIGITAL JUNGLE

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DIGITAL JUNGLE 

The next step in the Ai revolution 

Typical planned obsolescence directive 101. Microsoft wants all MS10 users to upgrade to MS11, which will include Ai.

What this means is that older perfectly good laptops and computers will suddenly become redundant, only adding to the already overflowing e-waste currently in landfills.

As a result a huge back-lash has ensued as hundreds of consumers refuse to play ball. And it’s no surprise. Because nobody wants it. Yet we can’t seem to put the brakes on it. It’s like trying to ban the automobile and sticking to horses.

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With the advent of AI integrated PC's, people are starting to wake up to the fact that something isn't quite right. And it’s been a long time a coming. But we’re only starting to realise the obvious stuff we took for granted is now being taken away from us. The gradual realisation that we’re being duped by the latest in craptops . NONE of which offer complimentary programs.

Essentially swanky tablets with keyboards. But then you have to PAY EXTRA for all the stuff that used to be free such as MS Word. That’s like buying a car but the wheels cost extra. 

They don't even have Dvd drives. That’s now a £20+ extra external drive, that only plays discs encoded in the last few years. Anything older it will spaz-out and you’ll have to buy a more expensive player or just give up.

Same with the Adobe Premier suite. And Pro Tools and so on.

Everything's becoming a subscription to a digital cloud that can be tracked and followed. That you have to pay yearly to access. Now its AI in your PC.

EMPLOYMENT ISSUES 

Another issue is employment. Nobody reads e-mails anymore. You spend all your time perfecting your bespoke Cv and e-mailing it off. Forget it. Just look at the amount of junk-mail each and every one of us gets in our in-boxes. Now imagine you’re an employer with tons of applicants to wade thru, amid a slush of junk-mail.

To combat this, employers now use algorithms to sift thru hundreds of applicants. AI has already made the choices, based on your entire internet presence. From your Facebook to your Tik-Tok accounts.

Time to print out a Cv the old fashioned way and physically hand it in at the companies reception desk, provided of course they have a receptionist in the first place. And they are not a robot.

This is the future. Where the user-experience is dominated by Ai. Innovation will grind to halt, masqueraded by regurgitated ideas, masqueraded by slop. Time to rebel.

WORLD-WIDE DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM 

It’s the next step in the Ai revolution. An interactive world-wide digital ecosystem. Where we’re all like ‘totally connected’. Oh kumbaya.

Gee-whiz! It all sounds so jolly romantic! But wait. Didn't they say the same about the internet?

"imagine someone in England able to talk to someone in Australia!"

Wow. Great! Now we have Facebook and a whole bunch of other platforms,  which in themselves are digital eco-systems. But since Covid, they've now become toxic environments of online slander, ghosting, fake accounts and  armchair warriors and trolls.

Don’t get me wrong. Digital eco-systems work great within smaller models. We call them intranets. The IRS uses them all the time, so do many businesses and establishments, including the Pentagon.

But that’s also the problem. A world-wide digital eco-system will not solve the issues of online child trafficking, snuff porn, age legislations. All it will do is compartmentalise your user experience, while all the bad stuff carries on regardless.

It’s all just an excuse for control of your mind. Think Vertical Integration on a planet-wide scale. Imagine everything owned by just one company. The only choice is the companies choice. But that’s no choice at all.

And with a world wide digital eco-system, thus we become embroiled in an echo chamber of our own making. 

DIGITAL JUNGLE

Enter the Digital Jungle: where everything wants to scam you. Eat you alive. 

If you think accountability is bad now, just wait until you are in the digital jungle.  

In the good old days, you could get ill from contaminated bottled water due to human error. In the digital jungle however, it could be Anthrax because no human element will be involved other than the nut-cases who implemented it.

KILLER DRONES

A digital jungle could be rife with drones because information is king and a drone is vital to intel-gathering. 

Cyber attacks could be a thousandfold  and policing them would be impossible. 

Worst still, these drones could be armed with guns and missiles. 

Might sound far-fetched but this has actually happened in Sudan, where  drones fired missiles at a Kindargarten, killing at least 79 people, 33 of which were children. 

Now imagine this in sleepy England:  your kid is being bullied at school. Without accountability, any jealous child could order kill-drones off Wish and attack their rival classmates. 

PLANETARY ID CARDS

Britcards are already being forced upon an unsuspecting public. The potential means you losing all control of your banking and travel privileges. Integrated Ai means that if you miss that red light, a parking fine, or IRS penalty, could mean a block on your bank cards. 

Worse case scenario, a Digital Jungle means the inevitable planetary ID card, which would mean nowhere would be safe to run to.  Even your own Ai laptop would turn you in. But perhaps I'm a little carried away here.

BANKING HACKS

Worst still, your bank account could be bled dry due to being hacked 24/7. Because all your personal information is online and any AI can hack into it as everything about you is linked by AI. So then you have to pay various subscriptions to keep you 'safe'. Its a tried and tested gangster-racket. In other words: "Protection Money".  

THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO 

It was bad enough when You Tube became part of the Google suite. Gone are the days when you could just post dick-picks online and run away laughing. 

Now everything is accountable. Trackable. Now those dick-pickers have to subscribe. Phew! But as a result we’re all becoming part of the digital eco-system, where anything can happen and will.

Yup. Its the last days of disco folks. 2025 marks the end time that we'll  be able to decipher truth from AI. With such built into your computer, you will be fed bespoke news. Bespoke soulless Ai Slop. You won’t know what is real and what is not. 

And that goes for Presidents and dictators too. The amount of political Ai slop being churned out is unbelievable. Nothing seems real anymore. Fake news is King. But like all kings, they have their day. 

DEATH OF THE INTERNET 

Astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson predicts that folks will no longer put stock in the internet and will no longer use it as a source of fact and objective information. The result of this could mean the death of the internet. 

This could be a blessing. The world could turn back to traditional methods of trade, such as real shops and face-to-face business.

And it’s no surprise this happens, when you can’t even buy something online these days without getting ripped-off.

TAKE THE POWER BACK

Finally peeps are drawing the line. It’s a little late in the game but it’s a start. I guess.

I for one still have a couple of old laptops using XP. They have FREE MS Paint (!) FREE MS Word and a whole bunch of other software most folks now have to subscribe for. I’m like the one-eye asshole in the country of the blind! But it wasn’t some miracle hindsight. The modems simply broke and couldn’t do upgrades. And that’s why they have lasted for the best part of twenty years.

What’s more they have Dvd drives (!) I get to play my favourite Dvds and Cds, burn discs and so on. I should capitalise on it. Next year I’ll be a millionaire, Rodders.

So time to dig out and dust off those old Dvd players. Keep your old Cds and Dvds. Hell. Even VHS. Because those classic movies and songs will no longer be available ANYWHERE without paying a massive subscription. Like that sound engineer who's been thru twenty computers over the years but his bulky hunk-of-junk tape player from 1965 keeps chugging along beautifully.

It is literally like the last five minutes of Terminator 3, where the good guys use Analogue to fight AI. And everyone reading this needs to do the same.

Don’t be duped by the digital wool being pulled over your eyes. Yes the car quickly killed off the horse. But now we are paying for it dearly. It’s time we got back to the future we wanted. 

If we are to navigate this new digital jungle at all, the balance between technology and human needs must be restored. And that requires people talking face to face with our lord and masters and holding them accountable.