what fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago?
Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.
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Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.
That nearly everyone is carrying a tracking device with them, designed to disguise itself as a convenient entertainment device.
Given this is the era of rising totalitarianism, maybe the surprise would be that there's no legal penalty for not carrying it; people just choose to to the point life will be difficult if you buck the trend.
And yet you still can't ask the device to locate someone.
How would that even register with people from 1923? What is a .... "tracking device"? Or an "entertainment device"?
Its 1923 and the phonograph has been around for 45 years, and local radio has been around for 3 in some areas, so I think they would know what an entertainment device is. A tracking device, like a radio that tells people where you are without your input. These idea would not go over the heads of any citygoer, though you would struggle with any back country folks.
Maybe a communication device? That's how it started at least.
I agree I should have phrased that better. Something like a "secret agent following you wherever you go" maybe?