I'm starting to think I'm definitely better off not knowing... [Regret of even trying to make sense out of that question rising...

--but more importantly, the confident estimate given by the other boy is... kinda alarming. Technology is something of a loaded topic for him, considering Fantasy World Logistics™. There's a careful pause before he asks for clarification, the time to bury the brief worry of what'd happen in ten years if he doesn't succeed.]

Ten years? So your world had devices like the GHS I was using in mine, and it took about that long to become the sort of phone we're given here?