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    Quote Originally Posted by KBs PensNmore View Post
    The way drones, etc. are going, Pilots will be a thing of the past in about 10 years,
    Doesn't a drone still have a "pilot", just not sitting in the cockpit. I doubt they will ever remove pilots (in the cockpit) from commercial passenger airlines, as I doubt many of the passengers would be comfortable with a pilot who doesn't have some skin in the game:
    Cheers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris Parks View Post
    I was reading the paper today and there was an article predicting that a lot of jobs are going to disappear in the next twenty years due to the digital age catching up with them. When I started work in the mid sixties I was an apprentice compositor in the printing industry and that job completely disappeared due to digital publishing. Did you have a job earlier in your life that has effectively disappeared for whatever reason?
    I was upstairs as a proof reader - that one has definitely gorn

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    Quote Originally Posted by rob streeper View Post
    I haven't even seen a payphone in ages.
    Obviously you haven't been incarcerated in ages, either.

    That's about the only place that you will see a pay phone these days.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rrich View Post
    Obviously you haven't been incarcerated in ages, either.

    That's about the only place that you will see a pay phone these days.
    There's one about 400 metres up the road, next to the shops, from me and it still works.

    Peter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sturdee View Post
    There's one about 400 metres up the road, next to the shops, from me and it still works.

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    Is that cell block 3 or cell block 4, near the canteen?

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    Quote Originally Posted by rrich View Post
    Obviously you haven't been incarcerated in ages, either.

    That's about the only place that you will see a pay phone these days.
    I can think of 3 near me off the top of my head. They're slowly being converted to public WiFi hotspots

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