pcr isn't pleased with 'our' digital revolution and i find no fault in his words; 

 

To Hell with the Digital Revolution and Its Bastard Child AI

Paul Craig Roberts 

It has been pointed out that human interaction has been replaced by an app, a code, a portal that a large percentage of the population finds frustrating and inconvenient, especially for older people who did not grow up with the isolating and often difficult to use technology.  The people who crammed this technology down our throats in order that they could make more money praise the “innovation.”  But in fact it is a technology that isolates people and takes control away from them.

And brings failure.  Not a week passes, and sometimes not a day, that I don’t experience the time-consuming failure of the digital systems to work.  Why they fail so often I don’t know.  Perhaps they are poorly thought out and will improve with time.  Perhaps the instability in digital systems is due to the insecurity of the Internet, which requires more and more layers of security hoops to jump through in order to make a connection. One result is security system  incompatibilities that result in dysfunction.  Perhaps use is rising faster than the systems can accommodate.  I think the only reason there has not been a generalized breakdown is that there are some elements left of the analogue system that, with effort, can still be contacted to bypass or correct the dysfunctioning digital system..........more.........