For the longest time, I was a holdout. I dropped one phone way back in the Android Cupcake days - the 2nd day I had it. Ouch. But I vowed to be more careful. Fast fordward and now I use the most minimal of cases, mostly because the phones are so slippery that it's hard to hold on to them now. One phone (Nokia 7.1) I nearly dropped taking it out of the package because it was so slick! It's sad to ruin the beautiful form of some of these phones with a case! It's balance of money and beauty.

I wouldn't say it's easy. The TV landscape littered with not-so-great mini-series. HBO (and in this case Sky Atlantic) does a great job of picking/producing them.

All good points. Something else to point out: People in general don't like to feel like they don't have control. Driving yourself = feeling like you're in control.

Sport (noun): an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.

Winning requires precision and talent from the entire team. The drivers are phenomenal athletes - racing an F1 car is not just sitting there and turning the wheel, it's physically extremely demanding. The racing is to entertain the entire fanbase.
Sounds like this fits the definition of sport perfectly.

I imagine there will need to be a shift in the way construction/road closures are handled. A route may need to be "taken offline" in a central database, which forces all cars to re-route, until construction/closure is complete, then said database updated with route online. This is a people/resource/procedure problem, not a technical issue.

I use Hacker keyboard for Tab (autocomplete) in BASH, plus the arrow keys, plus Ctrl/Alt.

This "problem" has been solved by several manufacturers with LCD displays that have circuity to handle the old CGA and RGB inputs. They have all sorts of timing and alignment controls, but with a nice modern LCD cabinet.

Don't forget that HF is also an option, not requiring repeaters at all for long distance communication.

Sometimes pulling your phone out of your pocket for every single tiny thing is annoying. I walk to work every day, 2 miles. I use Runkeeper because our company has a fitness incentive. Phone in my backpack, Pebble on my wrist:

1) I pause/resume Runkeeper to keep my pace up while waiting for stop lights (which is incredibly annoying on the phone)
2) Play/Pause/Resume/Skip track/Volume up and down for Audible, Pocketcasts or Play Music (depending what I'm listening to)
3) Receive text messages/emails on my wrist while walking... sometimes my friends text me for dinner, I used to miss those notifications all the time.
4) When I'm using navigation (walking or driving), I get Nav instructions on my wrist a nice vibration at the next turn indicator
5) Dismiss phone calls on my wirst

I've used a Pebble for 3 months now and absolutely love it. 5-7 day battery minimum.

Yes, smart watches DO have uses.

I get your point but...
1950's cars had air conditioning, they where quite reliable if your did proper maintenance and will typically sell for far more than $500 today (even scrap value is probably above $500 right now)

I use a strong password with a time-based one time password (Google Authenticator). 2-factor is pretty good security right now.

How about some rootworm ethanol?

This is completely and utterly wrong. TCP/IP was specifically designed to scale and does so nicely.