u/Long-Researcher-3802

How will AI, Data centres and internet tracking affect the UK?

Hello, i hope this is an okay post to make :)

i’m currently writing a book which without revealing too much revolves around AI and how it’s impacting our world. I’ve been deeply researching different aspects for a few months now but what i’m lacking is perspectives from individuals, most of my research is on a larger, statistical, nationwide or global scale.

**im looking for all perspectives - bad and good or inbetween. No answer is incorrect with this, and there’s no time period that i have in mind either. You could tell me about tomorrow, 10 years or 100 years from now :)**

The thoughts i’m looking for include how our world as its currently progressing will effect future tourism, climate, our individual lifestyles and how our seasons will change.

If our seasons do change (which right now seems inevitable), what could we expect from that? lockdowns due to rationing food/water, or due to increasing droughts/wildfires (or the opposite; snowstorms)?

How would it affect your job?

How will it affect your general living area? (e.g if you live on the coast, rurally or in a city).

How would it affect our health, or how would the byproducts (like excess gases in the atmosphere, waste in the ocean, sound pollution etc) affect us - physically, mentally and developmentally (e.g fetuses and young children).

What do you expect to come from the rise of digital ID, control of social media and cameras with facial recognition?

What would your social life look like?

Is there anything you’re predicting to happen?

Don’t feel like you have to answer all the questions (or any at all - if you have something else you’d like to mention that would be even better), i know i’ve asked a lot but im looking for as many participants/perspectives as i can. Thank you for reading and if you’ve taken the time to comment I’m incredibly grateful :)

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u/Long-Researcher-3802 — 9 days ago

At what point does on-street parking become unreasonable?

**Before i start this, i know it it’s first come first served, public road etc. I’m not asking from a legal standpoint.**

I live on a small cul-de-sac, it has 7 small houses in total and a car park that each house has a dedicated parking space in, plus three spaces that are a free-for-all to accommodate extra cars.

3 of the houses has enough roadspace outside of them to park in front of; my house and my two neighbours either side

When we first moved in, the neighbours to the left of us only had the 1 family car and a work van so parking outside our own houses was never a major issue. The right only have one car. Over the last 3 years Left have begun having a lot of visitors, which would result in the neighbours having their own 2 cars parked outside, plus at least one visitor car, leaving no space for me or our right neighbour.

This week, they got a 3rd car so they are now using all 3 roadside “spaces” for themselves. Due to our arrangement with the road parking, the other neighbours now have their own arrangement with the car park along with their visitors and there is now no space for us. Everyone has two or more cars except for us.

We’ve had to leave our car on the road today due to this issue, as we live directly opposite a main road we cannot park outside of the street.

At this point, it’s unreasonable, right? What would you do in this situation? what would you ask/say etc, what would you do if they refuse to move their car? We don’t have a great relationship with these people already so we’re feeling a bit stuck.

Also please don’t just reply saying “move house”. This is an urgent issue and we’re already in the process of looking.

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u/Long-Researcher-3802 — 1 month ago

What actually can you do about the noise of neighbours?

We’ve had ongoing issues with two households on the right of our house for the last 2/3 years. We’ve complained to the council before and they didn’t really do anything beyond sending a “sorry that’s happening” email. We’ve also asked both to quiet down before. We want to move but struggling as it’s a council house.

Our next door neighbours for the last 3 days have been sat outside 11am-8pm with barely a break, chatting loudly, shouting and two of their young kids screaming the entire time (can’t fault them as they are both toddlers, but adding it in here anyway as it contributes to the annoyance). The house next to them have been playing music on and off and have shouting, screaming kids (again not faulting, but it’s contributing) as well as a shouting dad. These ones also have a motorbike that wakes us up daily at 6am, so between that and the outside noise it feels like we only get about 8ish hours of peace and that’s at the dead of night.

It’s at the point where we can’t use our garden or open our windows because the heat is more bareable than noise. We

can hear them no matter where we are in the house and i can hear them over loud shooting games; the only way to drown them out is using headphones but wearing them for 9 hours a day is not only uncomfortable but dangerous. Genuinely, what can you do? is there anything to do other than move house? Noise complaints seem futile based on what people say here :/

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u/Long-Researcher-3802 — 3 months ago