As long as you keep claiming anyone who does not think like you is sane,
What an interesting idea... I'm crazy and everyone else is right. If everyone genuinely took that attitude the world we would probably be ok.
Here is the only reason travel is likely to return... self interest in getting more at company $ - especially by those who can influence the budget.
Although it does open your business up to the possibility of being leap frogged by competitors who maintain the virtual only culture.
I'd have thought there'll be intense competition for your business.
Reduced demand for seats in a restaurant, cruise, or flight *should* mean a price drop, or a combination of price and service, or bonus. Perhaps a free dessert, your first drink free, that sort of thing.
Even if an airline can't fill those profitable business-class seats at full price, it's better to discount them and occupy them, than fly with them empty.
We have seen how this plays out already!
The rise of the budget airline - when a crowded market saw an airline not able to fill the business class section at the right price, they ripped it out of the plane and put in economy class seats there (getting roughly 3 seats per business seat removed due to less legroom and narrower). They then change number of flights to meet market demand.
So this is just the move for all airlines to adopt the ryan air type model
but a lot of stuff that was forced remote is probably going to stay that way.
I'd love to agree with you, but I just don't see it. Most of the people in charge of companies are still 60-year old men. They that "grew up" in the business world with technology around, but they are still the generation that grew up rubbing elbows and view that as an essential part of business. I see it in my current company...the statement from leadership was to the effect of "most teams have done extremely well adapting to a remote work environment, but at our core we are a 'work from the office' company and will be returning to such as soon as possible." I'd be happy proven wrong, I love working from home.
They will go away eventually because money talks and if their big competitor suddenly gets ahead through $ or time savings by doing it remotely then they will either change their ways (unlikely), get replaced (unlikely) or the company will just continue to lose market share/ go out of business.
I know that my company have just announced yesterday they are going to "remote first" permanently (ie office is now officially an optional thing).
Being able to just shoot the shit with a customer before/after a meeting, or at a lunch/dinner is just something you don't get with a webex, but it's an important part of the process.
I think this is going to be biggest driver of business travel coming back.
The self interest/ desire for people to have the perks (lunch, time to socialise, "maybe I'll see that while I'm in this city",
But a lot of workers will just have to work out how to build that social relationship for closing the sale in other ways (yes that will be a herculean task sometimes).
You can get your own solar panels, wind turbines etc. or maybe install a generator in an exercise bike. There's no single global monopoly for electricity. But if your resistance organization relies on Google, then you are at the mercy of a single corporation.
That is a very concise statement containing logical fallacies, including reductio ad absurdum, and false dichotomy.
They are relying on Google but not in a be all and end all kind of way. If things suddenly collapsed completely, one person only needs to get original content and copy paste to move to the next tool, and it can be done with ease and speed if needed - social media is quite good at dynamically responding and reorganising - see the recent Hong Kong protests etc (which unfortunately are likely to fail long term but not due to this).
you don't need to own it. There's enough sun for everybody.
LOL.
The latter has never impacted the former, my friend.
(I know you jest but there is some truth reflected in it)
And that my friends is why capitalism will eventually fail. Beyond a certain level greedy shitbaggery will cause society to collapse.
Already heaps of ways to do it. Why do we need another? (pretty sure there was also nfc tap to transfer and others too in previous android vers)
Besides an academic exercise, whats the use of chatbots? My life isn't incomplete because I lack one. I doesn't help me.
Like all automation, it helps bring expensive products [professional services] to the many:
eg first legal bot - https://www.theverge.com/2017/... now common use in most developed countries.
And if the purpose of such interface is to get stuff done, then the task is more about understanding and doing things rather than having a conversation. Really, who has the time to have a conversation with AI?
Many professions are almost entirely based on using conversation to elicit information from a customer to come up with a diagnosis, legal opinion, or product requirements. Because sometimes people don't know what they want/ what they have, so we need free form conversation as the user interface.
I'm guessing you still need to have a conversation when you visit a human doctor or lawyer.
Is this yet another way to make people obsolete in a race to the bottom?
Yes I also fear for the buggy whip makers' jobs
Unfortunately I don't think we are going to be able to avoid the 20 minutes of commercials before the stream starts.
As someone else posted, you can use a strategy many of us use... buy your ticket (hopefully in pre-allocated seat) and just turn up 20min after start time.
UFO means Unidentified Flying Object
Right. Given "I don't know what it is", it's a bit of a leap to say "therefor I know what it is: it's an alien"
At least it shows progress... before that people would claim it is some kind of meta-physical (religious) phenomena. At least Aliens are theoretically from the physical universe.
One day we might eventually get comfortable with not jumping to conclusions, and just working hypotheses through until we know.
The "skateboard" term was first used by rich old men who knew nothing about skateboards. And here you are, also knowing nothing about skateboards, repeating it.
Sad, so sad.
Or you know, it communicates that it is a largely flat featureless structure with 4 wheels. that doesn't resemble what most people consider a car and is closer to a skateboard. But they can then build a car shell on top with room to sit one or more pedants (like yourself)
The platform doesn't steer by lateral pressure/ yaw in axels or have rise in the nose or tail. But the metaphor is more than adequate to explain what they needed. And falls apart when you try to take it too far.
And incidentally the vertical distribution of weight is pretty close to an offroad electric skateboard. So don't be too quick to judge.
power-cycling should never EVER be needed
Ugh... that's so not true. I've fixed many an ASA or Sophos up for 300days and memory leaks killing performance.
And this is why we need to notice when we say SHOULD.
GP is right it shouldn't be needed, and we also shouldn't push out code with bugs. Parent is right - reality means we often fall short of what we should do due to other pressures.
Europe here again, same deal. A regulation authority that basically already starts to slap you silly if you consider thinking about pondering that you might want to contemplate whether it could be interesting to explore the idea that you ought to use a preferred traffic system. Zero problem with out internet and I have here, in the middle of nowhere, 5 ISPs to choose from. I chose the one that gave me 100mbit synchronous for 70 bucks. Yeah, it's a bit pricy but their SLAs basically guarantee internet OR ELSE and I need reliable internet.
But just to be sure, I have a backup 30/6 plan from another ISP, it's just 10 bucks extra for ease of mind.
Just for balance, another "Asian Pac" country here (Australia). We have net neutrality here, and we have very hit and miss internet - some with fibre to household, others on aging coax/copper. Infrastructure falls over a lot. I get 15-20mbit on average.
So proving the two factors - neutrality and speed are completely independent axis.
Extrapolating never ends well...
I think you meant to write
"Extrapolating never
We can predict everything, except the future.
