"1923," he responds, aware of the fact that for most people here, that's long before they were born -- in many cases, long before their parents were born. "And yeah, I'm serious. We didn't have movies at all, when I was growing up."

He imagines that that's hard to fathom, for some of the people here, but then, their technology is just as confusing to him as his lack of technology is to them. Even getting used to the communication devices they're all stuck with has been an uphill battle; when he'd realized it had a video function, he'd been baffled for some time.