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<blockquote data-quote="bloodtide" data-source="post: 9698430" data-attributes="member: 6684958">Looking at any fictional future is always hard.&nbsp; It is hard to make that 'amazing' leap.&nbsp; In '95 the Web was a slow clunky place...really a nightmare.&nbsp; You could go to Kmart.com, but it was a single page that said &quot;er...um, stuff is on sale at our store&quot;.&nbsp; Yahoo was only a year old...and Google did not even exist yet.&nbsp; And 'social media'...like say MySpace was not until 2003!And sure 'video calls' have been a fantasy from like 1950....but the idea that like 95% of people would have a supercomputer digital camera video recorder in their pocket 24/7 was really beyond imagination.....95 is a bit more 'pager pre cell phone times'.So yea....the story is a&nbsp; bit odd there.&nbsp; But then it's not like the 24th century had it either, other then 'cell phones'.But the story still works.&nbsp; Even if lots of people were posting from the Sanctuary districts......some times people don't see it...or care (see current world events).&nbsp; Plenty of people might 'tune in' and watch 'Sanctuary Sally' on her live stream and she shows the horrible conditions...and just shrug and go about their lives.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bloodtide, post: 9698430, member: 6684958"] Looking at any fictional future is always hard. It is hard to make that 'amazing' leap. In '95 the Web was a slow clunky place...really a nightmare. You could go to Kmart.com, but it was a single page that said "er...um, stuff is on sale at our store". Yahoo was only a year old...and Google did not even exist yet. And 'social media'...like say MySpace was not until 2003! And sure 'video calls' have been a fantasy from like 1950....but the idea that like 95% of people would have a supercomputer digital camera video recorder in their pocket 24/7 was really beyond imagination.....95 is a bit more 'pager pre cell phone times'. So yea....the story is a bit odd there. But then it's not like the 24th century had it either, other then 'cell phones'. But the story still works. Even if lots of people were posting from the Sanctuary districts......some times people don't see it...or care (see current world events). Plenty of people might 'tune in' and watch 'Sanctuary Sally' on her live stream and she shows the horrible conditions...and just shrug and go about their lives. [/QUOTE]

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