“OMG, I feel like such a fool, but it’s my very first time, so I just set it up on my own without telling anyone. And to cap it all, I’ve forgotten the password.” JK Rowling when locked out of her new website
We’ve all been there. Bill Gates has made himself one of the richest men in the world providing us with software packages that only ‘sort of’ work. Passwords litter the landscape. Don’t write them down, it’s not safe to do that. Don’t worry we’ll set up a password memorizer on your computer. Then a Gates update overwrites everything and nothing works any more. Photoshop does the same – updates to ’improve’ the product which removes all your saved tweaks and shortcuts you’ve made to overcome the software failings.
Engineered with new material – cast iron. Designed and installed in 1779. It still works
Why all these updates? They call it ’product improvements’ but they are trying to repair their software where it doesn’t work. Gates is on the 11th iteration of his machine system, and he is asking us to allow him to rewrite Gods software and make the planet work – and he has his disciples like mad Miliband in Britain and a cohort of chanting acolytes who want to ‘save the planet’ by re-engineering the climate. Most of us just want to save our letters/family archives/photographs we were foolish enough to trust to their bug-ridden programmes over the last 25 years.
Of course to help keep our personal archives safe they devised a password system – yes the same people who created the buggy software then created a system to protect it. So now we have password systems which need password systems themselves to protect the protections that protect our passwords. To change the password on my email I need to download another piece of software, which requires me to use my mobile phone to download a number key so that I can unlock it to get the code to unlock the password reset to my email – which of course is where the new software sends to number code. Dear oh dear.
So, J.K. Rowling, modern heroine, witch slayer extraordinary, if you are reading this, can you create a Dumbledore (which I understand is an Anglo-Saxon word for a bumble bee) than can buzz around and sting some sense into software ‘engineers’. Was the industrial revolution engineered in such chaos?
If it can’t buzz some sense into software engineers before they let AI loose (maybe it’s already too late) can they at least inject some venom into the likes of Gates and his disciples before they start experimenting with the only planet we currently live on? Otherwise we’ll all be trying to get on one of that nice Elon Musk’s Mars rockets…
Hope they don’t rely on Gate’s software…oooo-er, mother….
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