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Watching Netflix' 'Maniac', and I hope I'm not spoiling too much when I say it SEEMS to take place in an alternate timeline. In many ways it feels like someone took the late 20th century (80ies, 90ies) and moved it in a completely different direction, especially technology-wise.

So first of all, how likely is a world without widespread use of cellphones and something like the the internet, post, say, the 1980ies? I'm not saying something like that wouldn't ultimately come around in that timeline, but at least in their version of 2018, it's no celphones, no internet.

What would the economy and culture look like? What alternative technologies, tools and behaviours would be developed, or see greater use?
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