It was funny when television sketch show 'Little Britain' said it. Now they are legislating 'Computer Says No' into the heart of our homes. We are not laughing now.
People need to stop using the technology. It's really quite simple. Even young people need to stop. Although I realise they won't because they think it's all very modern! But older people, the ones with the property, the money, the time, need to stop playing the game. My husband works for a fintech start-up and they used to have everything, all the information, on inhouse computers which meant nothing could be hacked or stolen or lost. Then a salesman convinced them to "Put it all on the Cloud" and now they pay a fortune to have it all vanish into the ether with all the hacking, stealing and losing opportunities that provides. Modern technology is merely re-inventing the wheel for people who have forgotten about wheels or are too young to remember them. Use cash. Buy from people you can see. Don't sign up to anything to do with the Internet of Things. If enough people stop playing, the powers that be will be helpless to enforce any of this rubbish!
People need to stop using the technology. It's really quite simple. Even young people need to stop. Although I realise they won't because they think it's all very modern! But older people, the ones with the property, the money, the time, need to stop playing the game. My husband works for a fintech start-up and they used to have everything, all the information, on inhouse computers which meant nothing could be hacked or stolen or lost. Then a salesman convinced them to "Put it all on the Cloud" and now they pay a fortune to have it all vanish into the ether with all the hacking, stealing and losing opportunities that provides. Modern technology is merely re-inventing the wheel for people who have forgotten about wheels or are too young to remember them. Use cash. Buy from people you can see. Don't sign up to anything to do with the Internet of Things. If enough people stop playing, the powers that be will be helpless to enforce any of this rubbish!
I spend a fair amount of time these days thinking about a return to barter...