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terranoid@lemmy.cafe ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• yakko@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Someone pointed out how there’s no phones in Star Trek and it’s probably deliberate. I get it.

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  • apex32@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There is an episode where a new game is brought on board. It’s really enjoyable, and once people start playing, they can’t stop. Soon, the whole crew is addicted. It turns out the creators of the game are using it for mind control.

    Seems like the perfect metaphor for modern cellphone/app usage.

    en.wikipedia.org/…/The_Game_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_…

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    • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I seen it yeah

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  • terranoid@lemmy.cafe ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Data: Captain Picard, we are being hailed!

    Picard: don’t put video on

    Data: but they want to video chat sir

    Picard: text them “what’s up”

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  • ToastedRavioli@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I dont think that in the 60s-90s anyone would have necessarily anticipated the existence of smartphones as they are now. Rather than it being a “deliberate” choice not to have them in the show. Its just not a futuristic idea of communication that existed at the time. Theres not smartphones in The Jetsons either. Earlier ideas of what the future would be like were a lot more utopian than the dystopian hellscape induced by smartphones and social media

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    • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s a lot of newer Trek shows that seem to have stayed away from smartphones too, though.

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      • ivanvector@piefed.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There’s not a whole lot of entertainment value in having a bunch of people sitting in silence texting other people off screen with the occasional loud video being played to nobody. Even if they are in space.

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      • ToastedRavioli@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Well yeah, but they are based on the universe that was invented earlier. It would be pretty jarring for them to have made a change like that

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  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They have communicators and iPads.

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    • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah I was talking about your garden variety “tiny pocket screen” type of deal

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• FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My friend group was really late to adopt smart phones. I was always the nerdy one, so i had a cracked iphone as soon as it was available. Years later, tgey still rocked the dumb phone. None of us cared about social media at all. The smartphones slowely dripped in, because that was the only thing that you can get.

  Boy that broke our whole group. A thing we would always do is hang out, listen to music, talked about movies, whatever. I did this for a long time my the last guy without a smartphone. The day he got an iphone, that was gone. We did it one or two more times and then we kinda drifted apart. Instead of talking about movies and music it was: let me look this up… I saw this thing on (whatever) This was before tiktok, i can’t imagine what younger people go through.

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• Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  While I agree it got worse, I remember some people doing exactly that when I was in high school in the 2000s - sms were enough to constantly distract them form what was going on in front of them

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• Polisheocket@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Glad to be an older millennial. Was in my late 20’s when smart phones were normalized

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• FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have experienced this. Fuck those brainrotted folks

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