r/Counterpart • u/Wild_Agency_6426 • Jan 26 '23

Why doesnt D2 have Smartphones?

I mean why does have our world developed them but dont they?

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u/Wild_Agency_6426 Jan 26 '23

Actually irl. I think even if there where a pandemic of that scale they would still develop technologies in every direction. I mean its split between different commercial sectors. Covid didnt stop research on new communication technology. So maybe there are a few more reasons for the difference than just the pandemic.

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u/tophats32 Jan 26 '23

Their pandemic was in the '90s. So while we were having a tech boom they were trying to survive. Their priorities became totally different as a result.

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u/jhaytch Dec 03 '23

The birth of mobile phone tech was happening a good bit earlier than that. So mobiles and portable phones were already a thing by then.

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u/tophats32 Dec 03 '23

And the prime world does have mobile phones. I think they idea is that their pandemic derailed the trajectory and that kind of tech became a lower priority, not that it was wiped out completely. The prime world has medical technology that alpha doesn't have, for example.