Looks like we’re in the same boat, we are finally having cooler, rainy days after two dry, scorching hot months, but apparently at the weekend, temperatures will shoot up again to high 30s! 
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This is happening all over the world, brick and mortar businesses are quickly becoming “a thing of the past”, everything is online, shopping, reservations, appointments, and this new computer fits in the palm of your hand. I’m an old relic though, I prefer to do my banking / shopping in person, but you will pay a higher price for the privilege.
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It has been that way for at least a decade for my electrical projects. All done with electronics except the final hard copy.
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!5-20 years, we’ve seen the change. In the early 2000s I was dating a lady who was involved employed with the earliest on line shopping networks, and at that time it did not look promising, maybe as early as 1998, it’s been brewing for decades, at least 2.5.
We humans always take the path of least resistance, that’s why we are easily manipulated by the establishment and big business. Paying for stuff with a card or a phone is so much easier than carrying a pocket full of coins around in your pocket. So despite protestations by some, cash will eventually die out.
It’s so much easier to pay your bills and do your shopping from your armchair, so eventually, banks will disappear from the high street, and so will department stores…They already have I hear you say…
I’m an ageing fifties child, and liked things the way they were, life was so much simpler, sure, there were some hard times and bad stuff, but the bad stuff seems so much worse these days.
I resist buying anything online, but there are things you just can’t get now.
In the book I’m reading there was a quote from an old comedian who was born in Knaresborough, his act is of an old grumpy Yorkshire stereo type with the flat cap etc…
He said…"The older I get, the more I recognise the world is becoming a place for people who aren’t me. I used to be all over innovation, but nobody is making anything with me in mind".…His name is Howard H Smith, and that quote is exactly me…
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