HardSF niggers writing a novel set in the 90's
>Wife: "What's wrong with the TV? This cathode-ray tube technology sure is amazing but unreliable."
>Husband: "Sure is. I'll go to the store and fix it. Give me a minute to warm the internal combustion engine on my car. Glad we don't need to use horses or anything like the primitives in (other story relevant place)"

>mfw old science fiction literally couldn't comprehended how bad modern life would get
Old scifi is so quaint

>>24479022
1984 and BNW are pretty bad even by modern standards

>>24479030
At least they tried to rebel in 1984
In the real world people actively accept the censorship of corporations

>>24479034
>they tried to rebel in 1984
arguably a single person

>>24479037
One more person than we have now

>>24479038
There's plenty of chuds fighting against globohomo right now but they're being snuffed on a trench in ukraine

>>24479011 (OP)
In real life I actually speak as if I were in a poorly written historical novel.
>"It sure is nice to be outside where the air is breathable and you don't get radiation burns, because, y'know, this is the time before World War Three happened."

>>24479011 (OP)
I always describe technology in its most recognizable and textured form.
Time period doesn't matter. I'm not writing a period piece. I may not specify the television is a cathode-ray type, but describe its warm glow, the drone as it runs. Radio? Big box with all kinds of knobs and dials. Phone? Describe the sound of shutting the lid, the tactile feel of the little buttons. Computers are big and chunky, sometimes taking up whole rooms. And cables. Thick messes and bundles of cables strewn across the room, a microcosm of the spider's woven pattern strung across the power lines that sprawl the city, the electricity buzzes like so many flies, struggling to break loose.

>>24479030
>BNW is pretty bad
It’s literally a fucking utopia

>>24479030
BNW is only bad for manlets

>>24479011 (OP)
>HardSF
No such thing.

>>24479372
I'm HardAF for HardSF.

Cyberpunk novels are the same way

>This machines holds 2 gigabytes of RAM
>…Dear God
>If the the Nipponese get their hands on this they could expand past the Mississippi and take the rest of America!

>scifi story set in 2100
>ypipo still exist

>>24479034
that's because zoomers have no free will. only older generations do.

>>24479011 (OP)
This is how my parents talk

>>24480506
>8MB of hotswapped RAM

Early 1900s SF be like
>And then John looked up at Mars and felt a strong connection to it
>He then was on Mars due to this connection
>multiple paragraphs of him beating the shit out of aliens

>>24479022
The Machine Stops is pretty close.

>>24479011 (OP)
But that's basically Infinite Jest