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ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 7 hours agoI 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
yakko@feddit.uk 6 hours ago
There’s a lot of newer Trek shows that seem to have stayed away from smartphones too, though.
ivanvector@piefed.ca 6 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.
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Ditto for AI. Oh, sure, they played with AI, but always in an embodied holodeck character or an android, never as a disembodied computer program. Imagine a show where every major decision point on the bridge was “do what the computer says.”
yakko@feddit.uk 6 hours ago
Yeah, well it sucks in real life too
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 6 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
yakko@feddit.uk 6 hours ago
Look, this is a boring conversation right? I feel mildly gaslit, can we talk about anything else?