ER: thirty years on
ER, the U.S. medical series, is thirty years old. It’s fascinating to watch (and remember) a world without the Internet and mobile phones.
In one episode, they get an Internet-connected computer to manage patient records and end up using it to play games.
So much of the plot only works because people can’t message each other on WhatsApp or Google something they want to know, or refer a patient to another department without having to phone them.