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Yeah nobody thought remote viewing was a thing until it was said to be real, and Russia was experimenting with it I think before the U.S. did according to a documentary I passively watched.

EDIT modified said to be real.

I've been a user of their products for years, and really like them but never knew the last name Hashimoto seems to be why the name of the company is what it is. <Mind Blown>

No offense, but my eyes glazed-over at your post. Yes, my point is it seems like every tv show on netflix etc, incorporates people texting/interacting with their phones which bores me but I guess since it is part of normalized daily life now, it is what it is. Thanks for the suggestions though.

I am not seeking a particular storyline but rather was addressing the question of whether smartphones have factored into the storylines of modern novels as they have in modern tv shows. Apologies if the question wasn't clear.

'...You could argue that I still have the choice to avoid using online services entirely. Which is what I do...'

Same here. Outside of HN, very few sites I will actually visit making use of outline dot com or internet archive when needed

Yeah, I think Google Loon would focus on the critical task of serving ads to those affected by a distaster /s

Years ago I saw a blog post from one of the major Security Conferences where the author mentioned flashing the tires on their car with an old-skool camera to destroy some sort of rfid tag or something similar. I don't recall the article, but the reasoning was something along the lines that there are rfid readers at various points probably used for parallel construction etc.

I think it is a perception issue primarily and I think pretty hard to quantify though I can share my own experience: some time back neighbors sold and new owners came in and turned it into an airbnb.

Seeing constant different groups of people come and go has definitely made neighbors on the block uneasy. Who is to say someone staying in an airbnb is not scoping out the surrounding area for example?

Yeah and the positions also keep getting bunched together with no end in sight. I suspect in the future we will see postings such as DevQASecMLOps and salaries will bump up nominally

I would wager that a lot of this wood is also being used to make Chinese 'stencil' pianos; China is the only location where piano manufacturing is still growing

Yeah I have a lot of older books, but was specifically asking about modern novels and if texting/smartphones were written into the plots like all modern tv shows

I haven't read a new fiction-based novel in ages. Does anyone know if smartphone texting and usage encroaches the storyline like it does with modern tv shows?