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Old 08-20-2013, 03:28 PM   #10
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I imagine that many who rated the book less than stellar would have had higher opinions of the book had we been having this discussion in 1992 when the book was first published.
Mobile phones as car phones were around even in 1982. Granted, in 1982 it was an analogue system, very different from modern digital cell phones, but it only required simple extrapolation, not invention from whole cloth.

By 1992 mobile phones (as car phones) were well known. In the UK we even had a chain of shops: Carphone Warehouse.

But you're right that it wouldn't have been as glaring an omission in 1992 as it is today. But the problems with the modern characters remain.
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