Re: Abolition of Cash
Originally Posted by
Bruce
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You can be sure lots of people said that when the first motor cars appeared.
Bad comparison Bruce....
Modern technology based on the internet is a billion times more complex than the simple motor car. There was a time when many people could understand the workings of their vehicles, and as such, would service and maintain them.
Even though the modern motor car is now way beyond the scope of the average driver to tinker about with, it's still not rocket science and mainly a collection of moving parts. Providing the oil and other propellants are forthcoming, I can't see it disappearing from our roads anytime soon. Unless it becomes economically or politically impossible to continue. (ever increasing costs, and the 'Save the Planet' knobs)....
The internet however is like an ever increasing tower of bricks that becomes more unstable as the height increases. It is dependent on so many things, as as history has shown us, if something can happen, it will! And when a vehicle breaks down, only the driver suffers, but when the internet breaks down......We All Suffer, as Cinders correctly points out...