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** On a related matter, ''any'' trope involving a [[Phone Booth]] is pretty much dead and is only likely to appear in works set between 1930 and 1975, when phone booths were commonplace. |
** On a related matter, ''any'' trope involving a [[Phone Booth]] is pretty much dead and is only likely to appear in works set between 1930 and 1975, when phone booths were commonplace. |
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* [[Food Pills]] (a complete meal—usually offered in a variety of perfectly convincing flavors—in a tiny capsule) were all the rage for the well-stocked future of the Golden Age of Science Fiction, but today's future food is more food-like. If there ''is'' concentrated food—such as the "protein pastes" that may be [[Food Pills]]' spiritual descendants—it tends to taste nasty. The change is no doubt due to the growth of the health-and-exercise industry and the subsequent general awareness that the human body needs considerably more than just a few milligrams of vitamins per day. |
* [[Food Pills]] (a complete meal—usually offered in a variety of perfectly convincing flavors—in a tiny capsule) were all the rage for the well-stocked future of the Golden Age of Science Fiction, but today's future food is more food-like. If there ''is'' concentrated food—such as the "protein pastes" that may be [[Food Pills]]' spiritual descendants—it tends to taste nasty. The change is no doubt due to the growth of the health-and-exercise industry and the subsequent general awareness that the human body needs considerably more than just a few milligrams of vitamins per day. |
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* The use of blood typing to exclude suspects in a mystery story now only appears in rare period pieces, as evidence in resurrected old cases, and as preliminary evidence in the ''very'' few stories that have DNA tests |
* The use of blood typing to exclude suspects in a mystery story now only appears in rare period pieces, as evidence in resurrected old cases, and as preliminary evidence in the ''very'' few stories that have [[Instant Forensics|DNA tests take realistic amounts of time to process]]. |
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** Inversely, as widespread DNA testing gets older it's increasingly unlikely that someone would not only be exonerated post-conviction by DNA testing ''and'' the relevant parties (at least the falsely convicted and the real criminal) still be alive, let alone have any trail left. |
** Inversely, as widespread DNA testing gets older it's increasingly unlikely that someone would not only be exonerated post-conviction by DNA testing ''and'' the relevant parties (at least the falsely convicted and the real criminal) still be alive, let alone have any trail left. |
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* The use of smelling salts to revive a [[Fainting|woman who's fainted]]—more precisely, the virtual omnipresence of smelling salts in every home. Judging by any number of classic movies from the [[Golden Age of Hollywood]], you were more likely to find smelling salts in a random medicine cabinet than you were to find aspirin. As [[Fainting]] itself became a [[Dead Horse Trope]] if not a Forgotten Trope itself, its quick and easy countermeasure vanished from the trope pool as well. |
* The use of smelling salts to revive a [[Fainting|woman who's fainted]]—more precisely, the virtual omnipresence of smelling salts in every home. Judging by any number of classic movies from the [[Golden Age of Hollywood]], you were more likely to find smelling salts in a random medicine cabinet than you were to find aspirin. As [[Fainting]] itself became a [[Dead Horse Trope]] if not a Forgotten Trope itself, its quick and easy countermeasure vanished from the trope pool as well. |
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