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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
I'm reading a book initially published in the 1990s and re-published by the author a few years back.
The author apparently changed all references of videotapes to DVDs (which were only available in Japan when the book was initially released, so it seems unlikely that this character living in America would have a collection of them) but didn't remove the parts where they had to hang up the phone to connect the internet.
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Should have left alone. So what if it seems dated today? So do most SF novels written at least a couple of decades ago, unless they totally skip anything remotely technical.
C.J. Cherryh was mentioned; those "tapes" in most of her books really grate nowadays. Still, to try to replace the then-current technology with the now-current technology is a bad decision. It will seem dated again 10-20 years from now, and so on... There's nothing to be done, it's just the way it is with technology and books.
Perhaps we should replace horses with cars in all books written before the 20th century...