Waiting for the Boiler Inspection
Jan. 23rd, 2008 09:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fiat_knoxI've been up since about eight. So far, no sign of the chapwho's supposed to be coming to check on the boiler.
I'll give it until 13:00, then give up. I've got errands in town to run after that, and I'll put a post up here round that time to let you know what's going on.
The only reason why people still screw up over things like this is because they don't yet have to compete against humanoid robots for jobs like this.
But then again, if robot brains could be made small enough to fit inside a humanoid robot head, they can be made small enough to fit inside things like gas and electricity meters, to monitor the appliances directly and communicate billing and status information directly, making it unnecessary for guys to come along to inspect them at all unless there was an emergency - which would be signalled by the applicance itself.
I'll give it until 13:00, then give up. I've got errands in town to run after that, and I'll put a post up here round that time to let you know what's going on.
The only reason why people still screw up over things like this is because they don't yet have to compete against humanoid robots for jobs like this.
But then again, if robot brains could be made small enough to fit inside a humanoid robot head, they can be made small enough to fit inside things like gas and electricity meters, to monitor the appliances directly and communicate billing and status information directly, making it unnecessary for guys to come along to inspect them at all unless there was an emergency - which would be signalled by the applicance itself.
