Victor Meldrew was the main character in One Foot In The Grave and in today’s automated world you could imagine him having a really hard time. You could picture a scene from the show were he would be struggling with an automated checkout, being outraged that you could do everything without the need for interaction with another human being.
It was not so surprising then to hear this sort of rant from the man who brought the character to life. Richard Wilson is that actor, and he was recently on television venting his rage at a world that has become so automated that it seems to cause us just additional stress.
In the interview he was stating how we wasted enormous amounts of energy and time as well as money on automated services that do nothing to benefit us and actually make our lives more difficult.
He says that all of the technology is just so corporations can save a large amount of money and not actually improve the customer situation. He even went on to describe voice automation systems that you get over the telephone as being racist, and this brought a nice amount of humour to his ranting.
He went on that he was stuck with tickets for Johnny English when he wanted to book tickets for another film simply because the machine couldn’t understand his Scottish accent. He also stated his frustration at how companies are making themselves do less work, as consumer are having to do more for them, just so they can save money.
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