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My novel certainly does, though cell phones are more of a quaint throwback rather than the typical means of mass communications when most people have neural laces or at least smart contacts. There is a large group of people who are forced to rely on them, or the just as outdated smart glasses/contacts, because their brains reject an invasive implant. But they're not the focus of the story, the protagonist has a 6th gen Neuralink, is about as cybernetic as a Tesla Cybertruck, and possesses an Internet of Things connecting his fingers and toes to his spine.
Then again, I'm a stickler for consistent worldbuilding, it's a self-describedly rational work of literature, and I make a genuine effort to avoid convenient worldbuilding sins because I'm explicitly writing the kind of book I wish I could read.
It's hardly impossible, just a bit harder. The most obvious solution is to have crises where just knowing what's going on or being able to get a message out is hardly sufficient to resolve it. If an author or screenwriter can't come up with any, they deserve to be tarred, feathered and run out of town, or at least denied writing gigs made for thinking folk.
The Neuralink can run out of power, and is only recharged by sleeping, but unfortunately our protagonist is - get this - an insomniac.
I would nominate you for winner of /r/TwoSentenceHorror, but after closer inspection, that spooky tale was just one. Still absolute shivered me timbers and roasted my almonds!
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