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Detective Conan, a very long-running anime, has been hilarious to watch this evolution in as well.

Phones go from landlines, to cordless, to flip phones, to smartphones

And at some point they get to stop re-explaining what a computer is/does every time they use one in a case.

What's funny to me is nearly every computer in a show made now, when everyone in the audience knows what a real computer looks like, will still have a totally fake "Hollywood UI". Mr. Robot excepted, of course.

The Hollywood UIs these days seem more plausible than they used to. Someone might be manipulating files in a reasonable facsimile of Finder or Explorer, for instance.

I had to explain a phone booth to my daughter recently. It was being removed from a corner spot in front of a gas station – maybe the last one in our city!

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