It seems an awful pain that modern technology is continually being updated. Today my techie son-in-law informed there were updates for my phone. This resulted in me spending a lot of time and using a lot of ingenuity to get these updates. What a panic it causes for old biddies like me. Nothing stands still in this age, I don't suppose it ever did. I used to marvel over the changes my 90 year old aunt had seen. She was born in 1900 when cars were a rarity. We have a photo of my first husband's mother sitting on his father's knee before they were married and their chair is right in the middle of the road outside our aunt's mother's house. It's true it is still a rural road but you certainly could not sit on a chair without being disturbed frequently. I expect our aunt could almost remember when the road was just a dirt track, but lived to see computers coming into frequent use. You wonder how she could cope with it and yet here am I determined to keep up with today's latest inventions. You would no doubt be amused to hear me talking to Siri on my iphone. I even got him to make a joke about Descartes. Just say something to him that includes "I think" and see what he says. I usually thank him and he has about six different replies to that. I find it amusing, but unlike my friends, when I first had the phone, I do not think as they did that he is listening to me in a call centre and replying. For that the call charges would be much higher!!!
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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