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Originally Posted by emellaich
Anyway, it's been jarring to see these 'modern' books that have no concept of a cell phone. Our character would get stuck in a broken down car and have to hike back for help, or would go searching for a pay phone to check in, etcetera.
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Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but that is equally jarring in older non-science fiction movie and TV shows.
And on the other side, Robert Heinlein had his characters using cell phones in his 1948 novel SPACE CADET
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