I've seen several companies offer a backup internet, e.g. Xfinity has "storm proof wi-fi", which is a battery powered cellular data connection. Eero Pro has something similar.
I can understand the incentive, but it competes with using a phone. It shows there's a market for data all the time!
I've read about dematerialisation, but it's interesting to see in a computer context.
I've bought an NVMe disk and USB-powered speakers this week. Both had fewer components than the parts they replaced.
I used to think gradual type systems (mypy, flow, typed racket) were the sweet spot. They're super-powered linters that help with refactoring, but you can run the code at any point.
In a statically typed PL, you need the whole codebase to be well typed before you can run tests.
