You’re ISP didn’t care. The production companies are the ones finding out your IP address. Your ISP is just passing the message along.

Interstellar grossed over $700,000,000 at the box office. How much money will Chandrayaan-3 make?

Just showing how pointless this comparison is.

The big issue is Google isn’t owned by the state.

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But what the iPhone did was put it all into an attractive package that worked really well with Apple’s services.

And where is the BlackBerry design now. The iPhone design isn’t just an “attractive package.” Back then, there were phones with a stylus, clamshells/sliding designs, and full keyboards. Now any modern smartphone is based off the original iPhone design.

I think when they say the scientists envision being able to convert full thoughts to text, that’s more like people 100 years ago saying they envision us having flying cars today. were no where near either of those things.

We have flying cars. They’re called helicopters.  Also another reason we don’t have “flying cars” is that if your engine breaks down you die.