Posted by Dave Thewlis on June 23, 2004 at 05:15:33 from 12.108.5.2 user dthewlis.
In Reply to: Mobile Phones posted by John Nichols on June 22, 2004 at 23:21:03:
Several times on this board the notion of what the availability of mobile phone (or GPS receivers) might have done to the storylines and plot devices - if not kill them off completely. I'm sure this is true, for the storylines as they were conceived mapped to the technology of the time.
Does anyone know of esp. a writer of children's books that is developing storylines where the 21st century gadgets are part of the technology of the time, and just taken for granted and used as they are today? I'm sure stories can be developed where the technology doesn't become either a plot-killer or deus ex machina and it is so pervasive today that it would appear to be time.