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Tech, Techno, Technology!
I'm reminded this week about how far technology has come in the last couple decades. For some people, twenty years is a long time, but the older you get, the faster a couple decades zip by. In 1988, not that many people had cell phones. And the ones that did, had this big bulky thing that just made CALLS.
Motorola was the first company to develop hand held mobile phones in the early 70's. You had to be military or a pretty big cheese to own one. In the early 90's, the IBM Simon was introduced. This was possibly the world's first smartphone. It was a mobile phone, pager, fax machine, and PDA all rolled into one. It included a calendar, address book, clock, calculator, notepad, email, and a touchscreen with a QWERTY keyboard.
Those days, in all different countries, networks and phones were being developed quickly to do more, be faster and charge quickly. Now it's something we take for granted. We live with our phones attached to our hands, much to the annoyance of others at traffic lights and things.
When writing, it's very easy to pop a cell phone into your character's hand to make a call or send a message. But do a little research if the scene isn't current, be sure that the type of phone you're using, or network coverage was available. And remember that dial-up modem sound? Yeah, it sometimes took half an hour to load a page.
This newsletter took a little less time, and hopefully imparted some helpful info. And as always, Write On!
This month's question: How do you use technology in your writing, including futuristic storylines?
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Excerpt: Check out the guy sitting up there by the front of the bus – black hair that looks slept on, raggedy dark clothes, that glare out the window like he’s pissed at the cloud covered sky – do you see him? Yup, that’s the guy. His name’s Seth McGowan and he’s about to have a real shock.
See how he keeps his gaze averted from the rest of the herd? Poor guy gets sick from the sight of them, their faces lit up by bright little screens, eyes and thumbs the only signs they’re alive.
Excerpt: I sat in a wooden kitchen chair, my wrists bound with duct tape behind my back. My ankles were wrapped around the legs of the chair and secured the same way. "What do you want with me, why am I here?" I said with fear in my voice.
"Oh, I think we both know why you're here," the man sneered with a toothless crooked grin.
Excerpt: As I said at the beginning of this story, I will let you decide just what the cause of these mysterious phone calls were but I should tell you that the phone in question has not been in service in over a year. I keep the phone with me because it makes a good alarm clock and I have a lot of music on it so I don't want to get rid of it. Now I carry it for another reason as well. If I change phones, will the strange caller know the new number.
Excerpt: Joe eagerly unwrapped the parcel that the courier handed to him over the doorstep. He placed it on his desk and looked at the lid of the box . YES! it was the model he’d ordered only a few days before, the latest Smartphone, the Yphone 3s. Whether or not it was media pressure, the appealing ads or just wanting to own the latest gadget to hit the High Streets he wasn’t sure . ‘Nice to be to be one step ahead of my mates,’ he thought. He’d read a lot about it. The memory was impressive, a whopping 50 gbyte.
Excerpt: Instead of hearing, “May I help you?” I hear a whispery voice talking on the phone. I turned up the volume. I could just make out the softly spoken words. I pulled over to the curb and sat listening shamelessly to those whispered words. This is what I heard.....
“I promise that I will be a better girl. Please will you help my little brother.
Are you there God? God, can you hear me?”
Excerpt: During the nights I had watched the bigger ones bring in boxes wrapped with funny string and place them under my tree, but I never cared about what was inside. Nothing smelled like food so it must not have been anything good for me to find anyway. Instead I just laid there, my beautiful paws curled up under my busty bosom, and made sure to warn them to not cover my spot. They never did, but after the noisiest mouse arrived the might as well had.
Excerpt: The lake that afternoon was surprisingly unpopulated, given the soaring temperatures. Not that it mattered. I seldom had time alone with Troy, and was secretly grateful for the nearly deserted beach. I was lounging on a towel, watching Troy treading water when my cell phone rang. |
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