Old sci-fi also has computers with relais, like the computer clicking in Aliens when it’s thinking. People giving each other their iPad in Star Trek is still pretty amusing to me. Some books still describe punch cards and tapes in space ships. Hell, in Rebel Moon they were shoveling coal to power their space ship.
My suspension of disbelief says the PADDs are because of information security. They can afford for everyone to have 20 PADDs so they’re all coded to only have one document until wiped by the central computer or engineering
But if the landline is in the capsule, it still is technically a cell phone unless they attach it to the phone company’s lines, it’s just a cell phone that happens to be tethered to your house.
Maybe they realized being instantly reachable by anyone everywhere you go kinda sucks actually and cellphones fell by the wayside in favor of “retro” style tethered-to-capsule phones, and Akira Toryiama just never mentioned it?
Sure and I don’t see one damn pole or wire out to that pervert’s island, so while it is tethered to his house, consider that his capsule, it has to go wireless at some point. Maybe it’s a sat phone?
Maybe Roshi’s internet is too dogshit to stream? He is on a mound that barely qualifies as an island.
I just watched dragon ball again. They have houses that fit into a capsule, but still call each other on a land line 💀
Old sci-fi also has computers with relais, like the computer clicking in Aliens when it’s thinking. People giving each other their iPad in Star Trek is still pretty amusing to me. Some books still describe punch cards and tapes in space ships. Hell, in Rebel Moon they were shoveling coal to power their space ship.
My suspension of disbelief says the PADDs are because of information security. They can afford for everyone to have 20 PADDs so they’re all coded to only have one document until wiped by the central computer or engineering
But if the landline is in the capsule, it still is technically a cell phone unless they attach it to the phone company’s lines, it’s just a cell phone that happens to be tethered to your house.
Maybe they realized being instantly reachable by anyone everywhere you go kinda sucks actually and cellphones fell by the wayside in favor of “retro” style tethered-to-capsule phones, and Akira Toryiama just never mentioned it?
They do call wirelessly, but pick up on a tethered phone at master Roshi’s
So no video calling, and they showed a picture of the time machine by faxing it over
Sure and I don’t see one damn pole or wire out to that pervert’s island, so while it is tethered to his house, consider that his capsule, it has to go wireless at some point. Maybe it’s a sat phone?
Maybe Roshi’s internet is too dogshit to stream? He is on a mound that barely qualifies as an island.