automated society

[Numbers]

I just got home from the bank. My wife went to the bank earlier to deposit $792 dollars worth of checks. The receipt came back for a $442 dollar deposit. Thankfully she is a lot more detail oriented and I and noticed it. She called the drive through teller's attention to it, she double checked and said, "Oh, the machine read your check wrong, don't worry it'll turn out right within two days". Not good enough.
So, I went to deal with the manager and it's all settled. Apparently they don't type the checks in (Compass Bank) but rather scan them and the computer can misread handwriting sometimes. According to them, it read a $500 dollar check as $150. First I don't know how that mistake between those two numbers is even possible. Secondly, does it bother anyone else that we've reached a point where typing in a number is too hard and a bank would rather leave that responsibility to a computer?

[jim]

It bothers me a great deal. I think we are too wired as a society, and personally I try to un-wire as much as possible. Which of course I typed on a computer message board on the internet.

Yeah we are too connected.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

The thought of driverless cars gives me the chills.

[Maclowery]

You are but a simple caveman.

[ghostrunner]

I deposit mine with my phone, but it requires me to also type in the amount for each check before it deposits. Seems like that ought to be simple enough at the bank.

Can't wait for driverless cars. Going to be quite a hump to get over when the first several accidents happen though.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

I love it. I hope robots run the world some day. People are [expletive] stupid.

[IMADreamer]

The thought of driverless cars gives me the chills.

As long as I don't have to have one it makes me happy. A world where everyone else is in a car that drives perfectly and doesn't do stupid [expletive] with me in a real car is a world I want to live in.

[Molly]

Secondly, does it bother anyone else that we've reached a point where typing in a number is too hard and a bank would rather leave that responsibility to a computer?

It bothers me that cashiers can't calculate change without a computer/register telling them how much it should be. God forbid you give them coins after the computer/register has told them how much change you should get back.

[heyzeus]

[jim]

Computers suck. I hate them.