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I think the biggest "shock" is how quickly these things got normalised, but this is in part down to how we used to see this stuff; back in the 90's I first saw stuff on TV about video calls and computers and the like (but turns out that was decades after that kinda thing was first presented and probably a hundred years since it was used in sci-fi), but the way it's presented is all in marketing fashions, like, very intentionally sitting at a desk, dialing a number for a very formal conversation.

"real" video calling sort of snuck in through the back doors once people got webcams and MSN / Skype, and became mainstream / common in the 2000's with always-on internet, remote work, etc. And at one point the smartphone and mobile internet got in people's hands and (video) calls became casual.

I think the other part there is that it's normal people using them. What I mean by that is that in these videos, it's all very formal corporate people. And then the first people that really get interested in this kind of technology or who have an interest in futuristic stuff are / were the "nerdy" types. (I am probably living in a bubble though). But it was the average joe that normalised this technology.

>>Cthulh+(OP)
tl;dr when normal people start using things, it becomes noramlised!