Mobile `phones and disposable nappies, mankinds` very worst inventions.

Just received a new text from Optus telling me AGAIN that I will need to turn on VoLTE by Oct 28 or lose service (same as the original message more than a week ago). Honestly you wouldn't believe it! One robot needs to talk to another robot and get their act together!

A segment from a recent ABC report shows the changeover could be potentially fatal for some people with pacemakers, monitors and other health equipment: "The National Rural Health Alliance is worried about the hundreds of thousands of medical devices that operate on 3G.

They include fall alarms, cardio monitors, oxygen systems and pacemakers.

Telcos have been working with the aged-care sector and companies selling medical devices, but alliance chief executive Susi Tegen said there was still a risk that someone could die when 3G was turned off.

"Even one life lost or in worse condition because they weren't able to change over or they missed the communication about it [is too many]," she said.

She said people who had devices such as pacemakers that were implanted in the body needed to check with the company that provided the device in case action was needed."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-25/what-will-stop-working-when-the-3g-network-is-shut-down/104511560?

very worst inventions
ateday,
I'd say the invention of Academic Degrees beats the others hands-down !