That lists looks like some middle management went to all Assistant teams and required everyone to come up with some cost cutting measures.

So stopwatch gets axed while countdown timer and alerts are still in? There's a reason why that's usually bundled in one app on your phone.

Creating calendar events stays in while moving existing events gets the axe? Biggest maintenance item here is probably the integration between calendar and assistant - and that needs to be maintained nonetheless.

As long as you get money from whoever gets ranked, that's a business model.

The US education system will give you the best degree your money can buy.

While agree that the definitions sound quite sensible, it is NOT a exactly sign of an actual expert if the first thing he does is redefining widely acknowledged technical terms.

Well, with this discovery you can probably give yourself credit for Zero, One, Two, Three and Four before going to Many.

Probably that's because a 6 on a standard die is represented by a 2x3 pattern. I also can recognize 9 items as 9 items if they are in a 3x3 grid. Recognizing 7 or 8 is much harder. But I think for higher rows/columns I need to count. I don't know if I can do 4x4 without counting rows/columns

Exatcly. The question is, are there people who profit from that mode? If so, that's a good thing. To the others: Don't use those modes. But be fair and put a LOT of warnings with the options.

as long as they are happy with virtual money.....

Otherwise: No harm done when that whole cycle implodes.

Maybe we should tell them that earth is going to be eaten by a giant space goat and put them on the same spaceship with the marketing consultants and telephone disinfectants...

Best do it before someone books a seat for me there, too...

That's half the truth.

All those "better" jobs require better qualifications. So with each of those "disruptions" (is that the new word for industrial revolution?) the entry bar is raised leaving behind people. And the more often this happens, the more people fall into that category.

Didn't they try to turn whole unemployed mining towns into "webdesigners" in the early 2000s? See how that went...

And so are "Influencers"

There are tons of people out there making fantastic creative content. (my favorite ones on youtube for example Townsends 18th century cooking or Technology Connections)

But no one would categorize them as "Influencers"

Now we only need AI-generated virtual followers and we have gone full circle.

Next step is the electric Monk. ( --> Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency)

"skill" is somehow not the right word here.

It doesn't take much skill to order a GPS tracker from the next China-Shop on Amazon Marketplace. It requires knowledge of the availability of those tracking devices. And the old fashioned GPS trackers simply aren't in the news and commercials as much as the airtags.

And what's even sadder: all those countries had or were on the way to Democracy!

That should be a warning that having a working free government is no guarantee against fascists taking over.

Well, how much other books can you name that you haven't read but still know two characters?