Don't forget Madison[1] (Splash[2]). My guess is that the majority of names prior to 1984 are clerical errors where the surname was entered as the given name.
Though in the same movie Picard claimed with a straight face that humans do not seek revenge in the 24th century either, so perhaps we should take his claims about wealth acquisition as similarly aspirational?
Yes. He is shown to be wrong about one facet of morality in the 24th century, so we should perhaps treat his other claims in the same lane as less reliable.
Also (if you round correctly) there is no generation loss in the format conversion. You can round-trip between them as many times as you want and you only get the loss of the initial RGB->YCbCr.
jpg: webp, avif, jxl. The first two are adopted because of non-negligible gains, the latter because of features missing in jpg.
mp3: Both AAC and opus have non-negligible gains and both are fairly widely used.
zip[1]: lz4, zstd, and lzma2 dominate at least gzip's implementation of deflate: For any given setting of gzip, there is a setting for at least one of those three that is both faster and smaller.
1: Not a codec; the zip format specifies a dozen methods for encoding. I'm assuming you mean Deflate, which is the most common compression method associated with zip.
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