I have a car with FM/DAB radio, so I've some channel to listen to. I'm in Italy and there's a channel for people driving, you can listen here that has some muzak and people making announces about problems on roads and motorways.
I could listen to other four channel of public radio in FM, and twelve in DAB, some with no ads and other with very few ads.
So when driving my main thing to do is to drive, not to listen to music, and radio doesn't distract you from driving.

Old CRT TV normally had the user manual, the schematic and pcb component disposition and alignment manual.
That wasn't for the average user, but for the repair technician so could figure what the problem was.

Another thing that happens with streaming service is that they have only available one edition that is different from the ones previously available.
Think for instance the digitally remastered CD that basically were overcompressed due the loudness wars. Another case is Neon Genesis Evangelion, Italian edition. The first edition broadcasted on TV and available on VHS was made by Yamato Video and they have the right on the dubbing. When the cartoon was acquired by Netflix they didn't acquire the dubbing right and some of the ending songs. The new dubbing, with new voiced was horrendous, in a language that mostly used Italian words and grammar, but wasn't actual Italian. Netflix had to stop the series and redo the dubbing, when the older VHS dub was ok and the voice actor liked by the fans.
Streaming it's like a big movie theatre with a lot of projection rooms, not like a library.

Media corps tried this and failed. Younger kool kids don't remember DIVX and self-destructing DVDs and the giant flop that these technologies were.
The big advantage of physical media is that it's standardized. I could play a CD or a DVD in any player conforming to the standard. With streaming media I have to subscribe to different services and not all of them are working correctly on all platforms, and anyway they have different user interfaces and so on.
For downloaded media the problem it's the same due the different DRM that is used.

The higher costs on 1980s electronic appliances was because of the technologies that were available that made the manufacturing more complex, with more components that were less capable.
A modern CPU now contains all the logic that in a 90s PC was spread on simpler chips on the motherboard and the graphics card was a full size card with a lot of IC on them. I feel also that build quality has fallen somehow: even comparing the same brand the quality of products they made 30 years ago was better than the ones they make today.

Probably you need narrow gauge train with smaller cabs, but having more tram-like service could be feasible. By the way even with vehicles on tyres, having a trolleybus system could have more sense because they don't need batteries. Glasgow underground line has tiny tunnels, but people are using it since late 1800s.

As an European I'm ok for a TV license to fund public television, possibly with no or reduced ads, if they transmit free-to-air and I concede for satellite TV having a decrypt card sold at a nomial price and without expire date.
Havin a tax to fund a private corporation that has a dying business model seems to me weird, in the self prolaimed land of the free.

Movies generated completely using CG are called cartoons. I prefer classic cel drawing ones like Akira, but there are very good 3D CG ones, like Wall-e or the Mario Bros movie.
Now if a studio doesn't have the money for a big star, there are other options, like hire less known actors or people that aren't professional actors.

Also in Europe it's mandatory that radio sold must have DAB reception, even if nobody it's really interested about it. So newer designs for radios, are VHF only and are using SDR chips instead of analog, so having an AM radio reception will require a totally separate circuit to manage it.
The other slow death of AM is the rise of electromagnetic pollution caused by badly shielded digital devices and switching power supplies, and even the widespread adoption of LED lights instead of incandescent ones. Not that older fluorescent lamp dould generate QRN, and older TV sets could generate birdies and feed them back to the antenna, but now the problem is worsened.

On modern cars changing the factory installed radio it's an hard task because it's integrated with other infotainment, rear cameras and so on. Especially on electric cars the trend is to have a big touch screen to use for all the stuff, with menu diving to change options.

To be honest, even in the days of mechanical typewriters and carbon copies was the same thing. I still have somewhere a 300 page book titled "Efficient business correspondence" with sample business letter that a typist used to write a boilerplate text for the most common cases.

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And of course you can't control peons talking with each other as easily if they're talking over teams and discord as you could when they would have to talk in office where everyone might be eavesdropping.

Except the peons could talk when going to eat, or when they're on the bus returning home, or even during a nice walk outside going to the parking lot.

Then the middle managers who keep telling their superiors how important it is, because everyone would notice they are useless

Some middle managers are quit useful, the problem is of course of middle managers that are only capable to putting spokes on the wheels of the workers.

You're reading it wrong. The infrastructure now is perfectly working, if they want a faster fiber rollover they should give some money or make a partnership. If the don't like it, they should become an ISP themselves.
https://www.sky.com/broadband
https://www.sky.it/sky-wifi-fibra
https://www.tim.it/offerte-tv/timvision (This one is a telco that secided to make a streaming service too, scroll down the page and see that one of the offers has also Netflix and Disney+)

Also bein in a "mors tua, vita mea" situations makes a less collaborative environment o r even goint to employees sabotaging each other, and this causing a loss of productivity.

https://cdn.veloce.it/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/3-fiat-panda-elettra-1920x1080.jpg
In the '90, Fiat made a Panda with an electric motor and lead-acid batteries, later NiCd and actually sold some of them, but they were really expensive and due the weight of the batteries an the power of the electric engine they had awful speed. You could rent one of them in Turin. They were actually sold and the few remaining ones in roadworthy state are sought by collectors.
The big difference is thaqt the electric Panda was made using a lot of the parts used for the petrol powered one, so with a lot of spare parts available