It must be very difficult to express how language would be used in the future and convey any sort of actual conversational meaning in the present, so you sort of are forced into "hello, fellow kids" as a writer or find a clever way to otherwise establish meaning in background definition.
A conversation between two teens in 2045 imagined in 2011's Ready Player One. Full sentences, commas to address each other; just exquisite grammar. I can suspend disbelief only so much in sci-fi.
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