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Originally Posted by theducks
Maybe it is because I have been around a while here in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Moms friend had a NEW Hudson Hornet. How many Car brands are now gone?
Sun Microsystems, DEC, Compaq, Atari, Fairchild. Nortel. gone
Some brands got absorbed and the name dropped. Others went belly up.
When they get mentioned in older books, it is depressing.
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One person's depression is another person's nostalgia, I guess.
Do you have a hard time watching Blade Runner? How many of those corps fell victim to the dreaded
Blade Runner curse? Still, seeing real brands makes a fictional world feel more 'real.' (I suppose you could argue that watching those companies disappear before this future world comes around makes it feel less real. But in contemporary fiction, I have no issues with it.)