Futureproofing Your Writing: How to avoid anachronisms in fiction to keep your prose timeless

How to avoid anachronisms in fiction to keep your prose timeless...

So you're reading along in the Bourne Ultimatum, you're with Jason Bourne on the run, he's caught sneaking out to the car—interrogated by the baddies—and boom, he says, "I'm just driving out on the highway to find a phone, that's all." He what? Doesn't he have a cell phone? While in 1991 there were no cell phones to speak of, today it's awkward for a character not to have one, and this leaves the reader feeling the story is ...