I've been thinking about the potential demise of the "isolation trope" for years - like, every time I see a film or read a book where the protagonist's main need is to find a telephone! What will we lose in fiction (and the real world) if being "disconnected" isn't an option anymore?
I shared some of my thoughts about this with CrimeReads, in a piece called How Do You Write An Isolation Thriller When Everyone Is Connected All Of The Time?
I popped over and read it. Good article! Yes, the connectivity problem. Maybe we'll have implants soon, too, so that a character can't even ditch the phone in order to run away without being traced.
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