"Not in my day." The comment reminds him of the lantern that he packed, so he takes it out, turns it on, and manages to hang it from a ceiling beam. "That is to say—it has not been implemented in any practical or widespread manner."

He starts looking into cabinets and drawers to see if there's anything to suggest what happened here, but it's all mundane things—tools, ledgers, and so forth—but he does find a box of seed packets, which cheers him up a bit.