I just had a curious brainfart about a potential travel bookings platform. People wanting to book travel could give it (carefully limited) access to their calendar data well in advance, allowing it to see their windows of opportunity for the trips they want to take. Then it would calculate a sort of consensus travel schedule for everyone whose data it has, one that uses vehicles and energy as efficiently as possible, allowing the customers to get their travel cheaper.
@strypey there's so much awesome stuff tech could do for us if we could trust these companies with our data.
Sadly, we aren't there yet.
@tootbrute @strypey No doubt a lot of fools would share all that sensitive info with a centralized corporation with blind trust & reckless disregard.
But perhaps streetwise ppl would also benefit incidentally, as tickets sold under the current non-data-driven status quo would have to compete on pricing. And LCCs could discover more routes, thus increasing suppliers in competition.
@resist1984 I guess my brainfart was imagining it run as a #PlatformCooperative, using #ObjectCapabilities to limit what data was collected and how, to make sure private data remained private.
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