Culture - Technology and Communication

Technology in Haven does not work the same way it does in the rest of the world. Modern technology, such as computers, televisions, digital cameras and video recorders, and smart phones, don’t work at all. The wards around Haven do not agree with digital devices. The magic has been tweaked just so that satellites cannot detect the existence of the city, and no recording equipment can be used to record the city and spread the information to the rest of the world.

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Technology is very much like it was thirty to fifty years ago. Landline phones are common sights in houses, while pay phones dot the streets. Old televisions with antennae might be able to pick up a stray channel here and there. Typewriters are used instead of computers. Cameras that use film instead of memory cards can be used, although film cameras are rarely found, and the footage is said to look “phony” if shown to anyone outside of Haven.

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Movies are shown on film reels and projectors, and radio programs are caught sometimes. Local radio stations that play a wide range of music from modern and contemporary to folk and classical are popular, though these radio waves do not penetrate the magical wards to the outside world.