I would love to see this catch on all over the country. There always have been, and always will be trade offs that often do make rail travel (in the abstract) superior to commercial air. 75 year long story short, the implementation in the US is broken, and will never be fixed. This should be marketed, and envisioned as a competitor to rail and existing bus lines.
I also think they should research route combinations that have terrible or no commercial air options. There are hundreds of these. Think about flying between two tier 3-4 cites. Or places where people take road trips to popular destinations from tier 1 cites. For that matter you might do well with families.
What's reasonably accurate mean? A straightforward way to do it would be to naively convert to sentence case and then run the text through a spellchecker with a corpus of proper words you care about.
Firefox is suggesting I correct phillis to Phillis. So Phillis is in the corpus, phillis is not and phillis is a close enough match to Phillis that it is the first suggested correction.
You honestly don't think people in the 2030s are not going to think smart phones and tablets are "shitty useless junk"? There are plenty of people now feel that way.
Also I think your impression of 80s consumer tech is woefully laking.
Good riddance! Back in my day we had character cells, and we had pixels. Is it not self evident that the entire browser ecosystem is wholly dysfunctional and psychotic? Personally, I'm holding out for left-align text as a service that uses a client with a 2GB dependency tree and infinite polling.
While I would love a contemporary performance computer that can be trusted, no such device is even remotely possible in the manufacturing and fabrication ecosystems of today. Consider for just a moment ALL the chips inside the box. All the microcode, all the ROM, all the places something could be intentionally hidden. The idea that you could buy some parts on the internet at retail price that could satisfy the truly paranoid (ie defense & espionage communities) is ridiculous.
On the other hand, it still is probably possible to prevent a computers unrestricted access to the internet. For now at least.
I've seen plenty of windows centric IT departments that would try to ban this from being installed. This act of admission will just be to iconoclastic for all those really enterprisey entrenched forces. You know the type.
