It’s the 2020s and nobody is doom-scrolling while being not-so-subtly brainwashed by anarcho-capitalist techbros. Not a single TokTok dance? Very hard to suspend my disbelief.
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My thoughts exactly. I’ve never seen anyone use smartphones in their near-future sci-fi, either, not even in the 00s where crappy touchscreens were already a thing and it would have been only one step further to imagine functional ones. Instead, seemingly all writers from the 80s to the present agree that very soon we’ll have holo screens. And flying cars, of course.
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Week four! In which the locked room room remains locked.
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Serial Experiments Lain is surprisingly good for this. It’s an anime that predates MySpace correctly predicting, among other things, ways that social media will screw us all up.
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I am not sure how popular/famous was touchscreen then. iPod? Also not sure if other techs like navigation in iPod Air or BlueBerry, or the like, would get more popular.
Also what if someone would imagine further than touchscreens anyway, like touchable holograms.
And I learned just recently about Flying Car in popular culture. ofc I have see movie with that, though.
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Back then it was “soft” resistive touchscreens usually requiring a stylus, not the modern capacitive glass ones we have on all smartphones these days. You had those on the Nintendo DS for instance and all subsequent Nintendo handheld devices until the Switch.
For instance the Palm Pilot had a touchscreen in 1996:
$299 for a handheld device with half a MB of RAM and a 16Mhz CPU.
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