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Punished_Blinx posted...

Sci-fi and futuristic settings still want to ignore the internet, messaging and social media being a thing. People will talk via holograms and video calls or leave voice and text memos behind. The internet doesn't exist. Mobile phones don't exist. It's more likely that there's a futuristic version of a newspaper.

I think some of this is that it's hard to create proper dramatic tension when there is very free flow of information. A significant number of stories revolve around things like:

• some characters knowing things but not everyone
• characters being unable to find each other
• characters having incomplete information about the world

even settings where tech and internet is a pretty big thing, I find often the intense / crisis moments have to come up with some reason for the communication lines to be jammed or otherwise nonfunctional