Science fiction gives the ideas that we can eventually implement ourselves. How many people working on the first customer mobile phone didn't think it was the

Science fiction gives the ideas that we can eventually implement ourselves. How many people working on the first customer mobile phone didn't think it was the Communicator from Star Trek? In 2001 A Space Odyssey, the book describes the tablet computer. Scifi has a great cultural and technological precedent in computing: it gives the ideas of what to do next. And that doesn't matter what sex you are (or aren't).