I don't think the phone scene at the Istanbul airport is particularly anachronistic, even now. (Cue Phoebe Bridgers' song "Kyoto": "They still got payphones")

I don't think the phone scene at the Istanbul airport is particularly anachronistic, even now. (Cue Phoebe Bridgers' song "Kyoto": "They still got payphones") The challenge for the showrunners is probably more that that scene was already done in one of the Matrix movies. Neuromancer was so original and has been so influential in so much mainstream media that playing it straight might feel derivative in some way.