Same with any weather app... you already know if it's rainy, sunny or snowing as well.

a weather app provides also forecasts and weather information for places you intend to visit in near future.

I had a friend in college in the mid-1970s. He was in engineering, and his dream was to get hired by one of the major shipyards near the beginning of development of a new aircraft carrier, because he knew design to delivery would take up the majority of his career.

My company is definitely not a startup, but my laptop has stickers from a corporate event from last year...cute little robots. No one complains.

And nuclear weapons. Don't forget the nuclear weapons.

I was in my late 20s when one of the trust managers at the bank I worked for brought in his Osborne. I was so very, very jealous. I'd just purchased the CP/M cartridge for my Commodore 64 and tried to convince him let me borrow the WordStar disk, but he wouldn't do it (and I really never went anywhere with CP/M on the C=64).

I recently toured SEA. The third (western-most) runway there is too close to homes to use regularly for takeoffs due to noise. Though the FAA has made the Port of Seattle no promises, they apparently do tend to use the third runway as much as possible for landings only, and not late at night as much as possible.

But...but...but...we already have a standing army.

"The Story Of Your Life" is a real mind-bender.

"Little, Big" is one of what I consider my "foundational" books. I've never been able to get into any of his other stuff.

I'd argue that the setting doesn't make "A Fire On The Deep" anything close to a fantasy. The Tines are a non-human species at a certain stage of development that's similar to humanity's medieval period. There's no more fantasy there than Michael Crichton's "Timeline."