The amount of effort vs a handful of toddlers, and people looking bored until they start just laughing. I’d be so embarrassed if I was one of the robots.

The writing in this story is not accurate. Iran isn't turning it off for the country. They are talking about switching government services to use receivers that use Beidou as primary source of timing and maybe selectively turn off using GPS on those devices.

All the tasks could have been easily solved with some basic APIs and algorithms.

Looks like East Anglia has basically disappeared. At least nothing of value was lost

This has to be a shitpost. Transportation of paper-stored data You can take the sheets with you, send them by post, or even attach them to homing pigeons

It kinda seems like you don’t understand the actual technology.