TallTrees not so FUNNY "Things to come"

[TallTrees]

Ordering Pizza in 2020 AND BEYOND......Shape of things to come……

CALLER: Is this Gordon's Pizza?
GOOGLE:
No sir, it's Google Pizza.

CALLER:
I must have dialed a wrong number. Sorry.

GOOGLE:
No sir, Google bought Gordon’s Pizza last month.

CALLER:
OK. I would like to order a pizza.

GOOGLE:
Do you want your usual, sir?

CALLER:
My usual? You know me?

GOOGLE:
According to our caller ID data sheet, the last 12 times you called you ordered an extra-large pizza with three cheeses, sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms and meatballs on a thick crust.

CALLER:
OK! That’s what I want ...

GOOGLE:
May I suggest that this time you order a pizza with ricotta, arugula, sun-dried tomatoes and olives on a whole wheat gluten-free thin crust?

CALLER:
What? I detest vegetable!

GOOGLE:
Your cholesterol is not good, sir.

CALLER:
How the hell do you know!

GOOGLE:
Well, we cross-referenced your home phone number with your medical records. We have the result of your blood tests for the last 7 years.

CALLER:
Okay, but I do not want your rotten vegetable pizza! I already take medication for my cholesterol.

GOOGLE: Excuse me sir, but you have not taken your medication regularly. According to our database, you purchased only a box of 30 cholesterol tablets once, at Drug RX Network, 4 months ago.

CALLER:
I bought more from another drugstore.

GOOGLE:
That doesn’t show on your credit card statement.

CALLER: I paid in cash.

GOOGLE:
But you did not withdraw enough cash according to your bank statement.

CALLER:
I have other sources of cash.

GOOGLE: That doesn’t show on your last tax return unless you bought them using an undeclared income source, which is against the law.

CALLER:
WHAT THE HELL!

GOOGLE:
I'm sorry, sir, we use such information only with the sole intention of helping you.

CALLER:
Enough already! I'm sick to death of Google, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and all the others. I'm going to an island without internet, cable TV, where there is no cell phone service and no one to watch me or spy on me.

GOOGLE:
I understand sir, but you need to renew your passport first. It expired 6 weeks ago...

Aspy

[Cleoriff]

Mmmmmm...beginning to ring alarm bells already @TallTrees 

[jonsie]

You worried @TallTrees ....?

[TallTrees]

I am always "worried" @jonsie 

That is what keeps me ahead of the posse

[Mi-Amigo]

Brilliant @TallTrees 

What`s worrying is that is too close to something which could happen very soon to others 

[TallTrees]

When I saw this I thought of George Orwell's 1984

@Mi-Amigo 

He wrote that book in 1949 ~ he was "on it" but even he would be staggered, the web of information gathering ~  mostly stolen from the "innocents" just surfing 

[gmarkj]

Brilliant @TallTrees.
On a similar note, did anyone watch the BBC drama called The Capture (not sure when it was on).
Was both eye opening and very scary in the premise and execution - it was very believable!

[Cleoriff]

Yes I watched it  @gmarkj . Gripping and frightening, showing the manipulation of CCTV which had dire consequences for someone innocent.

[TallTrees]

Hi @gmarkj 

Thanks ~ thought it would be interesting.

The Capture ~ Is that the one about special forces ~ I couldn't see anything else I think it is running on bbc iplayer ??

Am I on the right one @Cleoriff   ??

[gmarkj]

It is the one about a soldier in court for an "unlawful" killing while on deployment in the Middle East.
He then gets released but is charged with another murder.