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TFNA • today at 1:43 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

The way people interact has definitely changed with the times. Whole plots of twentieth-century fiction and cinema would now be unlikely or impossible in the smartphone era, for instance.


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nkrisc • today at 1:48 AM

Sure, the plot devices might be rendered moot by technological change but the underlying motivations remain the same.

Technology has changed, but humans haven’t.

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