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by EGreg 3 days ago
No passenger windows is the correct way to go. The screens can actually show anything, not just replace a window.
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Jeez way to ruin of the few remaining joys of flying. Lock everyone in a tin can. You will experience reality through screens only and you will enjoy it
Yes, you will! :-)
Infinite ads in econom
With 60hz pwm. And you can't turn it off

Ah... A dream

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True - unlike a car, it’s not like one could open a window in a plane.

Just hope they don’t make an “ad-free” window a premium upgrade…

Hell why even travel when you can just see Venice on a screen.
This question is deeper than you think. Until the 20th century, most people didn't travel even a fraction of that many miles per year. The most prolific travelers, such as Mozart, did not travel nearly as much as a person who's commuting to work every day by car or train -- just to sit in a chair in the office instead of at home. When it comes to transportation, we burn fossil fuels and pollute the planet with CO2 for mostly needless reasons.

Our generation thinks we're so much "smarter", but we're living on an ecological credit card that our children will have to pay, not to mention many of the planet's ecosystems, just so we can all have "memories of actually being in Venice" rather than simply a picture of us in Venice, which in the end is the artifact we have. (If we are that insistent on "being everywhere" and checking off a bucket list, perhaps "Total Recall" was onto something LMAO.)

You’re not wrong. Having traveled a fair bit it does eventually turn in to basically a big theme park experience. I still like looking out the window though