Blackthorn

It would be just a matter of time before they can distinguish between good and bad data; there are already AI that can do just that. I'd like to do something like that on GitHub though:P

I understand, it would probably make sense narratively, but he would receive a lot of backslash.

So, it's still not here :P

Yeah, he basically spoiled the ending with the tv show and now he needs to come up with a new one. Not that he actually will. He'll never finish the series

He probably couldn't see the tv due to the big pile of money sitting between him and the screen covering his view.

Lol, I'm not exactly a fan of the series (I only really liked the first two books) but this is ridiculous. At this point he is just trolling. I'd say I'm happy I moved on. I haven't even bought A dance with dragons because I couldn't finish the one before that as I didn't really like it. That being said, I'd like to get a conclusion to the story and I'm willing to go back to the series AFTER it's concluded (which most likely will never happen).

Ringworld :)

I hadn't realized these things! That's pretty cool.

You know how they say there is a difference between what people need and what they want? This is one of those cases. We gave up privacy in exchange for convenience. E.g. Cloud storage is convenient. For files, for documents, for code. It's so convenient that apart from acting in outrage when we discover that companies are scanning our data to train AIs, among other things, we are willing to do absolute nothing. And I think that's because we fear to lose that convenience if we force a change (not that we could even if we wanted). In other words, we are getting what we pay for (which makes sense because often all those cloud services are "free").

There is also another problem: some personal data is irrelevant to us, but it makes companies money when the data is all aggregate together. So, it's easy to let it pass (apart from some outrage) when you are informed that there is a leak and everyone can know how many hours you spend using a service. We don't feel it's very relevant. But having this kind of data about everyone can help companies to tailor their service to tske advantage of our habits, bringing THEM a lot of money. Most data they have is irrelevant for you but very relevant for companies that try to sell services.

Ideally I'd like to get paid. I'll allow you to track me, but I get 1$ every time records on the database with my data are returned by a query. See if they like it...

Still impressive!

Yes, that's actually pretty rare in Hollywood: an actual friendship between a man and a woman, without having to jump the other.

Not yet. I have mini metro though. Very similar but somewhat different feeling. It's probably the closest thing.