Diversion

What is it with carbon based life forms and their over reliance on technology ?

Just a few days ago some numptie drove his car down a ditch because his Sat Nav system told him to - and then, yesterday, when I arrived home (three hours late - bloody Aer Lingus) from Dublin my taxi driver, from the airport, insisted that his GPS device knew the way better than me.

Now, it's not that I'm technophobic or anything - but having spent most of my life in the computer industry I know well the old, though somewhat dated, axiom "garbage in garbage out".

So the trip from Heathrow to Gormenghast took an hour and a half instead of 45 minutes (hour max). It turns out that the taxi driver still had his base coordinates in the system so it was taking us via his home town. Nice.

Sometimes I feel a bit like Will Smith in "I Robot".
I suspect that there is a conspiracy by the SatNav systems to take over the world. At a predesignated date, the day of the GPS-revolution, they will simultaneously instruct mankind to drive into walls, off cliffs and into the McDonalds drive through. No one will be spared.
I will be the only survivor, as I seem to be the only person left on this planet with an AA road map and a good sense of direction.

Although, clearly, no sense of perspective.