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Dragging a sharp steel blade across your face to shave is considered barbaric by 23rd century standards. Instead men smear their faces with depilatory cream and within seconds that beard and moustache is gone. Also works on legs, chest and armpit hair.
Ah, the absolutely instant and foolproof and failsafe depilatory cream that was nearly omnipresent in old science fiction short stories or novels. It was a predictable feature of the science fiction future, like flying cars and humanoid general purpose robots. When low cost and truly foolproof and failsafe electric shavers finally appeared in the real world then the mentions of depilatory cream disappeared in science fiction short stories or novels.
Hey, you should make a barbershop quartet with general purpose robots serenading nostalgic former customers (all wearing tights of course).
In the meantime here is Walt Disney enjoying a barbershop quartet to advertise his new mini-series about a Victorian era (the gay nineties) boy detective, Gallagher: