Editing decades old work stuck in a time capsule

Have you ever opened up a piece of old writing that feels like it’s from another time? Something you penned decades ago that now doesn’t hold up across the expanse of time? Yes, we’re talking a micro-second on the cosmic front, but to you, it contains a relic of a past world that no longer applies?

In my sci-fi trilogy, The Miran, a story I began in the early 00s, many of the existing tropes, settings, props - you name it - no longer belong.

I am now up against editing old work that feels stuck in time. Updating a land line the main character uses to a smartphone. Changing the dynamics of boarding a plane.

Editing old work often feels like opening a time capsule.