Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35927111)

I'm with a bank that's mobile only, cool stuff though.

Originally Posted by pip08456 (Post 35927134)

Hope you don't ever have to deposit any cash then. Then again that's what all this is about, turning us into a cashless society so that they know what we've spent and where.

Originally Posted by pip08456 (Post 35927134)

Hope you don't ever have to deposit any cash then. Then again that's what all this is about, turning us into a cashless society so that they know what we've spent and where.

Originally Posted by Osem (Post 35927159)

Yep. No more cash and we're under real control. They can turn our lives on and off if they so wish. They can almost do it now.

Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 35927164)

I remember a TV series, I think in the seventies, based on a book called "1990". With Edward Woodward in the lead roll as an investigative journalist.

Where the state had the "Public Control Department" and the "Authorised Systematic Harassment" project to deal with dissent: The slow removal of everything that made life bearable. The daily brown envelope through the door that removed benefits and privileges, drip by drip. Your job, health services, school allocation, where you had to live etc. If you stepped out of line....

We walk that road at our peril.

Originally Posted by Osem (Post 35927167)

It doesn't seem quite so far fetched as it used to sadly.

Originally Posted by

Centre for Cities report

Cities Outlook 2018 is the Centre’s annual health-check on UK city economies, and focuses this year on the potential impact of automation and globalisation in driving both jobs growth and job losses in British cities over the coming decades (1).

Firstly, it reveals that 1 in 5 existing jobs in British cities are likely to be displaced by 2030 as a result of automation and globalisation – amounting to 3.6m jobs in total – with retail occupations, customer service roles and warehouse jobs among those most at threat.

Significantly, however, this risk is not spread evenly across the country, with struggling cities in the North and Midlands more exposed to job losses than wealthier cities in the South. Around 18% of jobs are under threat in Southern cities, compared to 23% in cities elsewhere in the country (2).

Originally Posted by figgyburn (Post 35934905)

https://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/eerily...erica-11938392

All this faux furore about equal pay for newscasters will fade into oblivion once these beauties are "employed"by the bbc,sky,etc.

Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 35934918)

Next they'll be wanting equality of pay. :erm: