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Can we build a spaceship to go there and unscrew that massive lug nut?

You could talk with Brazilians about Santos Dumont…

Users are always more creative than the devs.

I told this story before. I was migrating an old system to a new one and we discovered that we were still sending faxes to some companies. Our system would create a PDF and send to a server that was connected to a phone line. So we called those companies to ask if we could find another way to send the documents. We learned that they too had a server with a software that would receive the fax and transform it in a PDF.

Wait! The same problem Larry Niven’s Ringworld have also applies to Dyson Spheres? Huh! Saving to read later.

The only thing that amazed me about this is that he had a “talent agent”.

This is too much 1984…

I’d watch it!

It became his Moby Dick.

God’s eye? Why not Jesus’ wheel? We could just say “Jesus, take the wheel!” And the car would engage the self driving mode.

When automakers control more of those services, they are able to extract more revenue from customers who wish to continue using those services via a subscription model.

There you go…. Forget interface, experience, whatever. This is the reason.

Also a school district had an Amiga controlling the heat system.

Found a link: https://community.spiceworks.com/t/80s-era-amiga-controls-the-heating-for-an-entire-school-district/411781