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3AW Mornings: are we too reliant on tech?

Old technology may be failing in your home and your car, but will it stay this way? And are we too reliant on technology? Pickr joins to explain.

When the Crowdstrike incident occurred last year, cash was king all of a sudden in a world where technology just stopped working and mobile payment temporarily stopped functioning. That’s not the only case where it’s happened, with cars and home technology also seeing older gear that can’t be fixed and needs to be replaced.

So are we too reliant on technology, and is there a solution? There may be in the form of standards. Pickr’s editor Leigh Stark calls into 3AW Mornings with Tom Elliott on August 13 to explain. Hear it below.

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