Fallout is a warning from the oddball future of wearables
When Fallout 4 came out with a full-scale Pip-Boy model, back in 2015, I'm deeply ashamed to remind you that we made Johnny Chiodini spend a week wearing it.
Let's just say this: over the course of that week the Pip-Boy got mould and also broke, but Johnny still had the worst half of the bargain.Anyway, this week I finally made the obvious connection - and not because of the fact that Fallout just became a TV series.I carry a phone around in my pocket that is really a computer, and I'm a hearing aid user, which means I'm already used to clipping things onto me.The series' opening episode quickly draws a connection between the pre-Wasteland world, in which almost nobody notices a nuclear bomb going off outside because they're indoors watching television, and the era of the Vaults, in which a main character makes a petition to an advisory board, and is answered by three officials prodding their Pip-Boys rather than speaking - before her own Pip-Boy informs her of their decision.After all, my hearing aid, in a previous era, would have been a small trumpet that I would carry around with me and shove in my ear during conversations, and look how that turned out.