Remember when they said that robots would do all the work and we would spend our lives playing golf and stuff like that?
In the early seventies?
Of course we wondered where the money would come from to pay the bills.
Well I was out today with the dog for a few hours and I realised what had happened.
The first park we went into only had a few people in it, it was almost empty and those few I saw were retired elderly folk.
I parked behind the Local govenment van and we started our walk.
The local govenment grasscutter tractor was buzzing round the local government park. A private firm was ripping up bushes for the local govenment park and woodchipping them.
We said hi to Fred and his mum [his name has not been changed for the purposes of this article].
Another private firm was doing work in the pond for the Local government and as we reached the corner a Government employee police officer on a horse provided some excitement for the dog.
On the way up the far side of the park I ran into a chap I know as he unloaded a car from the city centre and said hello, he's a local government parking enforcement officer.
Then when we got to the car I had to wait a minute on my side of the road as another local government employee enforcement officer unloaded another different car from the city centre.
So we reached the shore five minutes later and parked behind another local government van for corporate services..whatever that means.
The shore was deserted, its a nice park owned by the local government. So there was only me..and a big local government sweeping lorry which we made a detour to avoid, going up onto the local government golf course.
And then I started to think...where the fook is everyone?
It's not a bad day and the Golf Course is EMPTY..well there was three kiddies whacking golf balls about and obviously skiving from school.
So we had a lovely walk on the deserted golf course and bumbled back down onto the shore.
And then it hit me, because the roads were quite busy today, it's not a holiday. Everyone is at work pushing little buttons on keyboards and stuff so that the machines and computers in far away places can do their work and make all our lives easier for us.
And because I don't work for the government or any of the corporate monsters I appear to be the only person left to enjoy the benefits of the machine revolution on a daily basis...
Everyone will be out at the weekend enjoying themselves but on a weekday in a city of 500,000 folk you get the whole darned place to yourself.
So if you want to enjoy the benefits of the machine revolution...make sure you get a job that doesn't involve pushing little buttons and looking after those darned machines that were meant to set us all free in the first place thirty years ago.
In the early seventies?
Of course we wondered where the money would come from to pay the bills.
Well I was out today with the dog for a few hours and I realised what had happened.
The first park we went into only had a few people in it, it was almost empty and those few I saw were retired elderly folk.
I parked behind the Local govenment van and we started our walk.
The local govenment grasscutter tractor was buzzing round the local government park. A private firm was ripping up bushes for the local govenment park and woodchipping them.
We said hi to Fred and his mum [his name has not been changed for the purposes of this article].
Another private firm was doing work in the pond for the Local government and as we reached the corner a Government employee police officer on a horse provided some excitement for the dog.
On the way up the far side of the park I ran into a chap I know as he unloaded a car from the city centre and said hello, he's a local government parking enforcement officer.
Then when we got to the car I had to wait a minute on my side of the road as another local government employee enforcement officer unloaded another different car from the city centre.
So we reached the shore five minutes later and parked behind another local government van for corporate services..whatever that means.
The shore was deserted, its a nice park owned by the local government. So there was only me..and a big local government sweeping lorry which we made a detour to avoid, going up onto the local government golf course.
And then I started to think...where the fook is everyone?
It's not a bad day and the Golf Course is EMPTY..well there was three kiddies whacking golf balls about and obviously skiving from school.
So we had a lovely walk on the deserted golf course and bumbled back down onto the shore.
And then it hit me, because the roads were quite busy today, it's not a holiday. Everyone is at work pushing little buttons on keyboards and stuff so that the machines and computers in far away places can do their work and make all our lives easier for us.
And because I don't work for the government or any of the corporate monsters I appear to be the only person left to enjoy the benefits of the machine revolution on a daily basis...
Everyone will be out at the weekend enjoying themselves but on a weekday in a city of 500,000 folk you get the whole darned place to yourself.
So if you want to enjoy the benefits of the machine revolution...make sure you get a job that doesn't involve pushing little buttons and looking after those darned machines that were meant to set us all free in the first place thirty years ago.
