"Not quite. It's text based. I mean, you can to voice chats, but the messengers were designed to be text based at first. Much cheaper than the phone because there's no long distance." Rory tried to explain. She was realising it was a bit challenging when John would have no frame of reference at all for what she was talking about.
"I don't doubt there'll be another drastic change by 2025 either. I mean, assuming we haven't succeeded in destroying the planet by then... some of the scientists say we're - people in general - are destorying the environment," she sighed.
"Yeah... I mean, I could go to my Grandparents' I guess, but I've never done that before, and I'd have to explain where I was and everything. How would you explain this?" she gestured around.
"Looking around would be good. As would a snack," she agreed, turning off the TV and DVD player with the remote before she pushed herself off the couch, "Come on."