Seinfeld had an episode about cell phones, though.

I don't remember the exact plot, but I think it was Elaine called somebody about something serious, like expressing condolences for a death or something, and she called from a cell phone while she was out and about, instead of calling from a land line at home. This was seen as a faux pas.

Giving Seinfeld shit for having a laugh track doesn't make sense. There are shows from eras before and after using laugh tracks, so Seinfeld is not an outlier in that regard. However, Jerry's occupation is literally a comedian. Having a laugh track in Seinfeld thus makes more sense than most shows that have one.

I can already see Kramer running NFT scams... or crypto rug pull xD

Something something Seinfeld something something Epstein island lemonade

Kramer: Look Jerry, twenty thousand dollars in ethereum.

Jerry: but who's gonna pay for that?

K: You know my friend Bob Sacamano he just bought three of those bored monkeys for ten thousand last week and they are now fifteen a piece, I tell you Jerry this is a great business.

J: but they are JAY PEE GEES!

I could see george having FOMO and doing most of this shit. Kramer would fall for the AI chatbot.

• Google being evil aside, I still think about how great google maps is and how it seemed to come out of nowhere.
• Paypal is straight up evil, no redeeming value for the past decade. Use something else. They also own Venmo.
• Battery packs and cell phones are great in that general sense.

To go a little more in-depth, if a product would simplify certain aspects of life, make them more straightforward and less prone to a chain of comedic errors, then it's a good product.

If a product makes things more complex, has more things to go wrong, and more corners and edge cases for some weirdo like Kramer or George to think they've spotted a killer side hustle, then it's a bad product.

Now, I'm not saying that smartphones and computers and the Internet aren't complicated, but they are far simpler to how things were done before. Read old hobbyist magazines to get a sense of the complex system of self-addressed stamped envelopes and hand-compiled mailing lists it used to take to get info on your hobby. Meeting a friend in a nearby town to go see a movie at a theater you haven't been to before required a shocking number of cross-referenced paper resources.

America's screen writers adopted the Seinfeld paradigm years ago:

No hugging, no learning.

Or — just hear me out, I'm going to say something crazy — simply consider: will it draw criticism?

This way, you don't have to use any of your attention span on Seinfeld or his shitty show.

Hmm. Do we want good tech, or do we want to inspire new Seinfeld episodes? This is a tough one.

There were no good episodes of Seinfeld.

MADOFF!

Apple Maps, on the other hand, is fully worthy of an episode.

"So what's the deal with inflation? Whenever I just make more dollars, I get in trouble."

In "The Checks" they get a bunch of tiny payments from Japan.