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“Beam me up Scotty.” I’d say people were dreaming about portable communication devices for quite some time. The Dick Tracy Watch goes back to the 1930’s. Prob
by melling 9y ago
“Beam me up Scotty.”
I’d say people were dreaming about portable communication devices for quite some time.
The Dick Tracy Watch goes back to the 1930’s. Probably wasn’t cool enough to use watches as phones in science fiction.
- pault 9y agoA glaring example is Neuromancer, where the protagonist is always running around looking for a landline to connect to cyberspace. You would think that by the 80s it would have been easier to imagine wireless communication, but Gibson is famously non-technical, so I guess it's not that surprising.