>>149116107 (OP)I think the only criticism I have about modern tech in cartoons/whatever is that it all looks so boring from a visual/silhouette standpoint. Older tech is clunkier, had to interacted with differently, and (again) provided more interesting silhouettes when characters carried them around.
Nowadays, if a character pulls out their phone, it's just a square. And when the use their phone record something, they're just holding out a square. And when they talk to someone on their phone, they're holding a square to their head. And when they're showing someone else a thing on their phone, they're just dragging their thumb across a square.
In comparison it's a lot more interesting to see a character flip open a cell phone, mash buttons on a house phone, screw around with a rotary, lug around boomboxes or giant camcorders (bonus points for microphone extension), pull out/insert a disc, screw around with a vhs player that churns audible noise, etc. With modern tech, it doesn't feel like there's as much opportunity for small bits of character expression thorough the way said characters interact with strange, yet mundane objects.