Nathan's post is timely. I do internet banking banking regularly, but today - and who knows for how much longer - my financial institution has bombed out: it's not working. Go and find one of the branches they haven't closed down.

It's a good thing that I don't leave paying bills until the last minute.

Yuyutsu,

<<This is called progress and fortunately for older people like us, we progress faster towards the grave and will soon blackout. That will solve our problem!>>

That's great for some people, but it doesn't help others. Plus, for others like myself who care about future generations, we do want to see outcomes to some of these challenges. After all we do care. Probably too much in the eyes of some, but we do care.

ttbn,

<<When a vile government like Albanese's gets reinstated, it can do whatever it wants to. Australians, particularly the young ones, deserve everything that is going to happen to them.>>

They do have too much control there, I agree (Labor), but don't forget those young people who cannot vote. They need some way to pay for things and they need to learn how to save money in a meaningful way, plus if they want work and get a job and to teach responsibility.

Paul,

<<We should understand that it's difficult for some old folk to adjust to modern living.>>

Just what is modern living and why is it better?

"modern living" gave us pollution, the Woke & the fracturing of societies everywhere.

Dear Nathan,

If you care for future generations, then try to make them small in number.

Technology is not meant to provide us with a better life, but to compensate for human numbers and enable more people to survive on this planet simultaneously.

Bringing new babies into this overcrowded world does not do them any favour - why should they squeeze and push to enter all at once when they can space it out just the same?

The disembodied do not feel any pain or boredom, so whether they are reborn after a year or 100 years or 100,000 years makes no difference to them.

Still no electronic banking available from my financial institution this morning. Life without cash and somewhere to hand it over is going to be so much fun, not just for old people who don't count for anything in the 21st. Century, but also for the smart-arse youngsters. There technical gadgets don't work any differently from mine.

Hi Nathan,
Modern society as we know it centainly has advantages over those less developed in a physical sense. Meeting our material needs and wants, requires far less effort than once was the case, thanks to productivity advances. Technical development in areas such as health and food production, has been of great benefit to a minority of the world's population, there is no denying that.

As for our social development, that's an entirely different question. Unfortunately it has not kept pace with our physical development, in many areas of human behaviour we're still in the stone age, or worse. Aka, great advances in science, so what do we do, we produce weapons of mass destruction, just that we can kill millions of our own kind!