A man and woman are sitting down in a living room. They are reading off of tablet.s
Their tablets are made of stone.
Why are they reading off stones?
There's something about holding a rock in your hands that newspapers can't replace.
scene: living room description: A man and woman are sitting down in a living room. They are reading off of tablet.s uncanny: Their tablets are made of stone. entities: Rosetta_Stone, Miscommunication, Marriage. caption: There's something about holding a rock in your hands that newspapers can't replace.
A joke about the progression of technology: people will often say that there's something about reading on physical paper that digital devices can't replicate. But here, paper is re-framed as the new, underwhelming tech, and these folks are committed to the feel of reading on rocks. It's a funny re-framing, and also funny to think about how these modern looking people could possibly have gotten used to reading on rock tablets initially.