20th April 2009, 2:23 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/weekin....html?_r=2
So apparently some writers are kinda bitter about how being connected by wireless devices in ALL OF EVERYWHERE renders age old plot devices nearly useless.
Well, not really. There are work arounds, you just can't use the missed connection in a modern setting with ordinary people any more. But hey, if we ever get a colony started on Mars, it'll be there again every several months or so when Mars and Earth are on opposite sides of the Sun, and that'll work fine until "mirroring" satellites are set up to bounce signals around the ol' man Sol.
But hey I've been noticing a lot of movies lately intentionally setting themselves in earlier periods. Works just fine.
Just be glad we don't have insta-repair nanotechnology yet. Then DEATH would be eliminated as a plot device :D, and shortly afterwards, you'd need to find something else besides CONFLICT to design a plot around :D.
So apparently some writers are kinda bitter about how being connected by wireless devices in ALL OF EVERYWHERE renders age old plot devices nearly useless.
Well, not really. There are work arounds, you just can't use the missed connection in a modern setting with ordinary people any more. But hey, if we ever get a colony started on Mars, it'll be there again every several months or so when Mars and Earth are on opposite sides of the Sun, and that'll work fine until "mirroring" satellites are set up to bounce signals around the ol' man Sol.
But hey I've been noticing a lot of movies lately intentionally setting themselves in earlier periods. Works just fine.
Just be glad we don't have insta-repair nanotechnology yet. Then DEATH would be eliminated as a plot device :D, and shortly afterwards, you'd need to find something else besides CONFLICT to design a plot around :D.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)