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So references to public pay telephones, and a time when railroads were the primary means of transport, cannot set a "future limit" on the date.

So references to public pay telephones, and a time when railroads were the primary means of transport, cannot set a "future limit" on the date.

Tellingly, the producers of the current ''Atlas Shrugged'' series of motion pictures wrote a specific back-story element: that the world had abandoned air travel, and even private jet aircraft were rare. He could have written "smartphones" and TV monitors out of the story, but decided instead to update the other technological references to modern times. Any other producer could do the same without affecting the essential plot elements. (A future producer could also change the Taggart Transcontinential Railroad to Taggart Airlines if he wanted to.)

Tellingly, the producers of the current ''Atlas Shrugged'' series of motion pictures wrote a specific back-story element: that the world had abandoned air travel, and even private jet aircraft were rare. He could have written "smartphones" and TV monitors out of the story, but decided instead to update the other technological references to modern times. Any other producer could do the same without affecting the essential plot elements. (A future producer could also change the Taggart Transcontinental Railroad to Taggart Airlines if he wanted to.)

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