Well, I suppose that's a compliment. [ Especially since he's mostly an underground drug producer, but you know. ]

The technology where I came from was... a bit more advanced than this, but without the magic everywhere. We had cars, electricity, jukeboxes, but no lines of communication like that. Perhaps we're not a communicative people.

[ Or perhaps the people leading the way in technology had other things they were focused on. Give it 20 years. ]