Dr. Jones receives the letter denying him tenure

[thewayne]

Poor Indy! There's also an excellent link of how stories could change if the lead characters had cell phones. I'm tempted to dabble in that a bit meself.

http://mcsweeneys.net/2006/10/10bryan.html

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[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

A few years ago I read a particularly jarring piece on a web site somewhere. Essentially the author of that article's complaint was that if you really think about it writers have kind of ignored technology on the whole. Even sci-fi writers will convienently forget that they set up a comunication network in the first few pages of their story or will forget very basic kinds of technology we use every day. This person was pointing out things like the amount people don't use the phone in movies and TV particularly, they'll run across town to talk to someone instead of calling.

There were other things like the lack of computers in a lot of fiction, people who will go to the library instead of google, all that stuff.

I can't remember all of it, but it made me check these sort of things a lot more and they were righ. A whole lot of movies, books and TV shows would be different if people used the stuff they should have at hand.