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Used to be a tropey “hacker” character in movies and shows whose main line was “I’m in” Now increasingly weak have a tropey young “social media hacker”person whose main line is “Its trending!” It’s literally the same character with a phone replacing a laptop
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Basically anything at all complicated or that could harmfully impact the pace of the media. A proper explanation of anything that's at all unintuitive is near impossible in narrative media unless the narrative is built entirely around it (documentaries etc.)
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Movies do a terrible job of portraying the joys of staying at home (and related issues like growing older, building a life/home/family). Those are “boring” and unfilmable compared to going to the club, behaving stupidly, and making wild irresponsible gestures.
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The computer (in our time our phone) would have to be a character capable of response. It is this in cyberspace. So the problem is the media is in meat space trying to depict cyberspace and that does not work.
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