> It sounds like you're taking the wrong direction with this; did you ever experience any of the H2G2 media? No. But just because a well regarded book said som

> It sounds like you're taking the wrong direction with this; did you ever experience any of the H2G2 media? No. But just because a well regarded book said something doesn't mean I have to agree with it. > Watches were mocked precisely because they were a cultural symbol; I think the things I listed would also be. I genuinely find nothing to mock in the digital watch. I think it's a great example of human achievement, and basically the pinnacle of the function it performs. Timekeeping has been a problem for humanity through the ages, and we finally solved it for good decades ago and then made it dirt cheap. If you showed one to the smartest people of the ancient past, their mind would be blown at the amount of polished tech from multiple branches we can put on a wrist and have it work perfectly almost forever.