Science took a giant leap backward at some point.
Scanners don't swivel.
Traffic control is a lost art.
Landing pads are as useless as the boyband with the name of the main problem with landing pads.
Apart from those landing pads that actually do damage to your hull, through your shields.
Bodies in space can only be scanned from right up close to them.
GPS was uninvented.
All computer systems got bigger and now weigh in excess of 1ton.
No-one shares data, and no data can be stored or logged, due to the extreme cost of data storage.
Everything is now touchscreen, so there's no right-click context functionality.
The touchscreen HUD was designed by someone at Gutamaya who never saw Minority Report (whose fav. colour is burning orange). No-one at any other manufacturer ever thought to design a different HUD, and Gutamaya haven't figured out they could sue for breach of IP rights (if there were any lawyers).
There are no AI. Only robots who say the same things over and over....
There are no lawyers & no courts. You get fines for not speeding thru the ports. You get shot if you get stuck in the scenery.
All the silicon in the universe was used up in the 2027 Intel/AMD arms race, so now the only processors available mean that everything from using the loo to ordering coffee is preceded by a loading screen.
However, the multiverse has been discovered and now you can swap between universes to change people who have no work for you into people who have work for you.