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Originally Posted by theducks
1950's newspaper funnies had Dick Tracy with a wrist radio, later in that decade, upgraded with Video.
No excuse for being that far behind in the tech UNLESS EXPLAINED
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Eh, they have faster than light space travel there. So yeah, no excuse for the lack of personal comms.
I actually remember another SF novel (ok, written a decade or two later) where there were no personal electronic devices at all and the reason was explained in-universe (I don't think the explanation was all that believable, but at least it existed). But no reason that I could discern in that 1982 novel (other than the author's lack of foresight).