Prison dramas are notoriously difficult torender on screen with any authentic sense of the tedium that underscores the violence, claustrophobia and degradation of daily life.
The limited number of polygons means that speeding up one of these systems to refresh the screen 60 times a second, as is needed to smoothly render fast-action scenes, requires cutting the number of polygons per screento the point where detail suffers.
Then again, it could well be that the new technologies render us more autistic: less inclined and able to communicate, and therefore happier in front of a screen rather than talking to, let alone loving, our fellow man.