General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

I had this idea about the future today. I won't pedantically repeat all the interesting and some rather valuable offerings. However, although we have been kind of favourably (contentious) drawn to the ease of online shopping I would offer this concern. Apart from people losing money and sometimes life savings due to the scums who pray on people, there is also the worry of AI (robotic messages etc). Since the introduction of AI my requests for work or to engage with other firms, contractors, etc has escalated by 200% plus and still becoming a daily chore to delete. I always go the 'unsubscribe' but these robot generated emails don't offer the facility.
I am reasonably optimistic that sometime in the near future people will distrust all online content due to continual scams that appear very genuine but simply take your money and disappear overnight.
Subsequently people will eventually choose to buy at a an actual real shop.
The only concern i have is that as more and more shops refuse cash there is still the opportunity for crooks to clone you card.
I do hope that cash will still be valid into the future and towns like Wigan having favourable results.