The reason for the problem is the Fractional Reserve money system. Depression is written into the system, as are the size of defaults on debt (as inflation minus growth) This video explains the problem https://youtu.be/2nBPN-MKefA

Capitalism is the only system of creating value that we have. And all that money sitting in his bank account - I'm sure it's invested in other business's stocks. The Fractional Reserve banking system is the big problem, driving the need for perpetual growth and asset stripping our natural resources. The excellent "Money as Debt" videos explain it wonderfully - Mandatory viewing for everyone who uses money: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Too much change in one go. Time zones should just be abolished. Everyone everywhere should just use UTC time, using the 24 hour clock.

So everyone's watches will just display raw unixtime?

Soon mining will stop. End of problem.

A firewall app will block this kind of thing. For example: https://play.google.com/store/...

The kernel version numbers should just be the unixtime of their release. Or the number of days since the the first release.

They are using ZX81s to run their webserver

Who cares about that rogue Edison. Joseph Swan was the inventor of the light bulb and what he thought about it would be more interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Swan

The British museum mostly things from foreign cultures, like blocks of stone written in three very exciting ancient languages! The V & A is much more interesting.. http://www.vam.ac.uk/

The Siemens Gigaset SL78H does most of the things you say. You can sync to your PC, have a text message sent to your mobile whenever someone leaves you a voice message, sync the address book to other handsets or to your mobile via bluetooth. http://gigaset.com/