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hypnox posted...

The biggest example is Harry Potter. Why do wizards insist on living with outdated technology and not get with the times? I mean I know they can do magic, but there's other things that would make their quality of life better, and I never understood why they always refuse to embrace it.

Well, the books imply that the wizarding world became hyper-insular following, presumably, the witch trials as a way to protect itself. To them it's a defensive measure meant to keep themselves secretive that, unfortunately, results in them being largely cut off from technology. I mean, can you imagine just how swiftly Hogwarts would be exposed in the modern era thanks to social media and a bunch of dumb kids/tweens posting to twitter, tiktok, and whatever else? If you wanna stay secret best to just outlaw phones for all except a very small portion of trustworthy people.

But, in a more general sense, it's because no one would take, say, a camp made specifically for demigods if the daughters of Diana were learning to hunt with modern hunting rifles and drone scouting instead of a bow and arrow. Or a magic school that teaches kids spells in Latin but doesn't have a course about how to speak Latin. It not only breaks the immersion but ruins the whole point of what makes the society special in the first place.

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