whoa, I just imagined a world where USPS, Deutche Post, etc - offer domains, servers, cloud services - as a natural extension of treir previous roles..
The entire paradigm difference or "features" which you are lacking is exactly the way the providers want you to funnel you - compare Organic maps (using osm), which only allow you to browse and navigate, to gm or am, which will always prefer you to be served with opening hours and ads of their partners, then only show GO LEFT, WARM, WARMER, you're almost there, now CONSUME&BUY!
And come back to our app again if you need to get a taxi or buy a fare... cmon, sweet convenience!
Then to wake up in a reality where you forgot why north was showing on top of the screen, you prefer it to turn map orientation with your body movements and ofc whisper more dopamine inducing advices.
Me and my partner/friends travel with some privileges due to my work in air transport industry, so business class seats on trans-oceanic flights for 150$ or so
Still hate the experience in comparison to modern rail.
But security theatre is apparently necessary, see "golden age of hijacking" 1968-72: over 300 events in five years, that's a hijack a week!
Definitely not a place or time for extended discussion on this, but I'm quite hopeful that in another century or two it will become a shameful page in history books - the fact that when we were already able to sustain our civilisation without generating unnecessary suffering of other beings - we continued to do so out of convenience.
500 years ago if you were born into peasant family, you usually stayed peasant no matter what personal effort and talent you brought to this world.
200 years ago your sister would be treated as a posession of a guy who married her.
I'm happy that our beautiful traditions evolve into more thoughtful iterations.
And I hope that logic and kindness will continue to increase their impact on our lives and policies.
