"Cassette futurism" and other retro sci-fi bothers me on some level because it's retrograde. When Star Trek, Star Wars, Aliens, Blade Runner et al. were made, they wanted to look like the future.
Now there's all this effort to make new stuff look like what a half-century ago thought the future would look like.
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@Phorm @xinjinmeng or like how TNG-era Star Trek had each file get its own PADD device because they just wanted to convey the mess of going through hundreds of files with a big pile of physical clutter
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It struck me the other day that an entire generation exists for whom floppy diskettes are a thing they saw in every classic sci-fi property as a symbol of high technology, but never touched themselves because that format was dead before they were born.