Technology Lessons

"Qui Verbum Dei contempserunt, eis auferetur etiam verbum hominis" -- C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

The Daily Mail reports:

"Boris Johnson only came round to mine for technology lessons, says ex-model who received thousands in public money."

Evidently, reading his bizarre speech at the UN, he didn't take much in! Here are a few extracts from someone who is apparently a British Prime Minister:

"You may keep secrets from your friends, from your parents, your children, your doctor – even your personal trainer – but it takes real effort to conceal your thoughts from Google."

"In the future, voice connectivity will be in every room and almost every object: your mattress will monitor your nightmares; your fridge will beep for more cheese, your front door will sweep wide the moment you approach, like some silent butler."

"Are we doomed to a cold and heartless future in which computer says yes — or computer says no with the grim finality of an emperor in the arena?"

"AI, what will it mean? Helpful robots washing and caring for an ageing population, or pink-eyed terminators sent back from the future to cull the human race?"

"A future Alexa will pretend to take orders. But this Alexa will be watching you, clucking her tongue and stamping her foot."

"What will synthetic biology stand for - restoring our livers and our eyes with miracle regeneration of the tissues, like some fantastic hangover cure? Or will it bring terrifying limbless chickens to our tables."

The Washington Post also had this to say:

UNITED NATIONS — Things the beleaguered British prime minister said in his astonishing speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday night: “Pink-eyed Terminators from the future.” ‘’Terrifying limbless chickens.” ‘’Your fridge will beep for more cheese.”

Limbless chickens there may not be, but a Prime Minister clearly off his trolley there is in the present day.