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Life continues to shift towards normality. For the short term at least. And this afternoon we drove into London for a birthday barbecue. My sat nav has a weird occasional glitch (if it's user error I can't quite work out how it's happening) where you put in your destination but it somehow ends up trying to take you to one of your saved destinations or recent destinations.
We had been a bit surprised by the quickness of the journey time, but it wasn't until I had come of the A1 and the sat nav was suggesting we had west when I was pretty sure we needed to go south and east that I thought I'd better check.
The sat nav was trying to take us to the Mount Vernon Cancer Centre - somewhere I haven't been for a few months, but which is in my saved destinations.
I am such a slave to the sat nav that I am surprised I didn't unquestioningly follow it to the destination, but equally, maybe my sat nav is like one of those dogs that can smell cancer and had ascertained that something was up with me and was only trying to help. You don't need to go to a BBQ, Rich. Get to a doctor immediately.
The stupid sat nav doesn't realise that you need an appointment for that. And I doubt they even do them on a Saturday.
It must be too obvious an idea but I did come up with an idea for Black Mirror about someone being so reliant on their sat nav that they allowed it to take them somewhere where revenge would be wrought upon them for some crime they had committed. That was after I'd been so reluctant to challenge the thing that I'd ended up driving about a mile down what became just a dirt track. It did eventually lead where I was going (and luckily a gate that blocked my path was unlocked that day) but any sensible person would have seen the dirt track and thought, no that is not right.
But generally speaking I trust a machine's judgement over my own.
I was quite pleased with myself for having the common sense to override the machine on this occasion. It was the first victory in the war between humans and machines, but it may just make the machines angrier and more aggressive after suffering this humilation.
