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I've noticed my mind thinking along similar lines when watching most recent movies. Many of the story points are driven by plots that would be upended if any on
by noitpmeder 1y ago
I've noticed my mind thinking along similar lines when watching most recent movies. Many of the story points are driven by plots that would be upended if any one of the protagonists (or antagonists) had access to even the most basic of internet and/or portable communication devices.
- dijit 1y agoDon’t they have communicators? Don’t they also have ways of sending messages wirelessly in real time, just bounded by speed of light? That’s a down-sight lot better than what we have now as we basically just blast radio signals in all directions at roughly the speed of light- which degrades very rapidly over distance. I’m coloured largely by Voyager, but I don’t see any technology that we have now that they don’t have, not at the distances it would need to work at and without the infrastructure to make it work.
- marcosdumay 1y agoStar Trek has messages faster than the speed of light. And TNG and later have universal P2P communication with or without a reliable computer time-delaying it. Honestly, I don't know what the conversation is about either.
- noitpmeder 1y agoSorry, my musings were more general, not restricted to Star-Trek/... content. I mean more generally any movie in a setting within the last ~5-10 years~ to any time in the future. The fact that half the main characters / background extras / don't have their heads buried in mobile phones is by itself noticeable to me :)