Preventing pointless detours
Couldn't there be a sensor that indicates when something has been thrown inside? And that this sensor passes this on to the driver on duty, so that the van doesn't have to drive around in vain. If what Jelleke says is really true ("There's never anything in there"), this problem is solved in this way, isn't it? Technology has ensured that nothing ever gets in again, technology can also prevent you from driving around pointlessly.
In this respect, mailboxes can learn a lot from call boxes. They are not a protected species. All 3,300 call boxes were taken out of service at the beginning of July this year. Due to 'the arrival of the mobile phone', as can be read on the ANWB website. Still a sharp observation, mid-2017. The call box is lower in the functional hierarchy than the mailbox. You could also say that the mailbox is more future-proof than the call box. The call box is stupid and iconic. So iconic that the 500 call boxes that were auctioned were sold within thirty minutes, three hundred euros each. And now there is a lively trade on Marktplaats, the price can go up to seven hundred euros. With the description of the condition: 'used'.
Because of 'the arrival of the mobile phone', as can be read on the ANWB website. Still a sharp observation, mid-2017.
Take the burglary damage. A friend of mine showed me a photo of the wrecked interior of a car, a BMW or something. Airbags out, dashboard wrecked, navigation and radio out, big mess. But, no break-in damage on the outside, no signs of breaking in, lock completely intact. The door had been opened with a mobile phone, remotely (yes yes, the healthcare email list advent of the mobile phone). And yet, there are policies that only pay out if there are signs of breaking in. Well, let's be clear, in a few years the number of physical keys will be considerably less, with iris scan, subcutaneous chip or mobile phone you give yourself access to houses, cars, bicycles and suitcases and a little hacker can get in anywhere without it. The only scratch he makes is on the soul of the victim.
Take the truth. A great deal has been written about it recently. The concept of truth is extremely sensitive to technology. There is only one of them on a given subject, but there are so many fabricators of facts that it becomes increasingly difficult to fish out that one true truth. In addition, the truth has much more difficulty being recognized compared to the lie. It has to do with the bullshit asymmetry , which describes that the amount of energy required to counter the lie is infinitely greater than the amount of energy required to invent the lie itself. This is in contrast to the truth. The lie comes on horseback and leaves on foot, the truth (trust) travels the opposite way. It comes on foot and leaves on horseback.
Mailboxes and payphones
Drawing by Sterre Steins Bisschop. Click on the image for a larger view.