Yes, there are benefits, and advantages. But there are also costs; not just money costs, but security costs, maintenance costs, vulnerability to scams and hackers and vandals, not to mention criminals and foreign agents. And we have no choice, because someone wants to fire a few telephone operators you have to start doing his bookkeeping for him. And just when you think you have it all figured out, they change the rules on you. Fuck this shit.

Yeah, maybe I'm getting old and curmudgeonly, all the usual stereotypes. I really didn't want to do that, but they just keep on throwing curve balls at you, and if you don't allow yourself to be inconvenienced, you find out you are forced to pay a price.

Everyhing I know how to do is obsolete, all this knowledge and experience is no longer marketable. No matter how much you learn or study or experience it doesn't really matter any more because there is a new way of doing it now, and in a year or two it will be obsolete too.

This is the Singularity the AI people have been warning us about,