Reflections 18th December

What happens when technology makes human "average" becomes ubiquitous?

Photo by Amritanshu Sikdar on Unsplash

I can be a terrible procrastinator (or should that be a very good one?). Those things I know need to be done but are inconvenient or a bit scary (DIY is a pit of terrors for me). In the end, though, there is no escaping them.

The last few weeks of this year have felt like that. At a societal level, watching a government in denial of the effects of its own policies and a summer of madness as it clings to “independent pay reviews” done a year ago as though they are some incantation that, if repeated often enough, will ward off the reality of the need of people who can no longer afford the basic essentials of a civilised existence. On the other side of the coin, unions that revel in a fight as much as a resolution, and media, social and conventional, whose business models dictate that they feed and glory in the conflict because it attracts attention to the advertising that drives their income. In between, there is us, trying to understand what is go…