I had a little trouble with this sort of thing on a smaller scale in a story I finished a couple of years ago. The story was set in 2000 and I started writing it in 2003, when most of the technology was still current, but progress on the story was slow for several years until I got my butt in gear and finished up the last several chapters in 2011. By that time I was having to remind myself of things such as that in 2000 most people didn't carry cellphones, and home video usually meant VHS cassettes, with DVDs just starting to make their first appearance.
Light on Shattered Water (review) has as one of its plot elements a laptop computer that the main character had with him when he was transported into an alternate reality. Although the author, Greg Howell, made some surprisingly good guesses when the story was originally written in 1995-1998, he made several revisions to bring it in line with current technology when it was released as an e-book in 2012.
I had a little trouble with this sort of thing on a smaller scale in a story I finished a couple of years ago. The story was set in 2000 and I started writing it in 2003, when most of the technology was still current, but progress on the story was slow for several years until I got my butt in gear and finished up the last several chapters in 2011. By that time I was having to remind myself of things such as that in 2000 most people didn't carry cellphones, and home video usually meant VHS cassettes, with DVDs just starting to make their first appearance.
Light on Shattered Water (review) has as one of its plot elements a laptop computer that the main character had with him when he was transported into an alternate reality. Although the author, Greg Howell, made some surprisingly good guesses when the story was originally written in 1995-1998, he made several revisions to bring it in line with current technology when it was released as an e-book in 2012.