I read today, on a blog, a comment that said everything that comes to pass was predicted by SciFi years before invention.
I read Sci-Fi, I have read, probably, thousands of books over the last 30 years (you work it out, two books a week (minimum) is100 books a year (minimum) is 3,000 over the last 30 years and those numbers are conservative.
Not once, before 1990, have I seen the cell-phone predicted.
Every time communicators are mentioned they are radio based i.e. they provide only one way communication at any time. You can't overtalk your mother-in-law on a communicator and, hopefully at least, convince beloved that the girl in the bar was your landlady's sister checking up on you.
You can on a telephone (if your wife is not the brightest).
I love sci-fi because of the reality and the fiction combined but let's not be silly. Sci-Fi ain't perfect either.
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