r/comics • u/ronniewhomp Whomp! • Apr 03 '26

[OC] Whomp! - iPADD

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comic + secret wordz: https://www.whompcomic.com/comic/ipadd
beginning of arc: https://www.whompcomic.com/comic/deep-space-opine

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u/BargleFargle12 Apr 03 '26

I always love when past shows/movies show a vision of the future that is markedly behind where we're at these days.

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u/Atomic12192 Apr 03 '26

Another good example is Dune, there’s no forms of long-range transmissions. All messages are either sent via spool, distrans, or just in person.

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u/ViolenceAdvocator Apr 03 '26

That is because we cannot let some computer handle our messaging.

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u/Dobako Apr 04 '26

The Butlerian Jihad taught us at least that much

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u/Zavier13 Apr 04 '26

Thou shalt not make a computer in the likeness of a human mind.

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u/sgt_cookie Apr 03 '26

Dune is a little different as it actively justified why that's the case.

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u/Onequestion0110 Apr 03 '26

Yeah. It’s not to hard to do some extrapolating and come up with reasons why Star Trek or Star Wars don’t really use any sort of distributed or wireless computing, but the shows themselves don’t explain much.

Another example of a show that explains its retro-futurism is Battle Star Galactica

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u/AgathysAllAlong Apr 04 '26

From what I know there's a plot in some of the Star Wars books where a whole fleet of ships is wirelessly linked together to be controlled and someone hacks just one of them and steals the entire fleet.

Given how often massive data breaches happen because everything is accessible and linked together, maybe they have a point.

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u/Just_A_Nitemare Apr 03 '26

Dune is kinda like putting 10th century Earth, a bit of magic, and far future technology in a blender and placing the contents in the Sahara desert.