webjockey  wrote:
>
> Well Aleks, did you stop to consider what medium that you used to post
> your message? Would it have been "hyperoptimistic" to have predicted
> the Internet and its widespread use? How about cell phones? Neither of
> these inventions was predicted at all. Not even 30 years ago:

Star Trek TOS predicted cell phones.  Or rather cell phones
were invented based on inspiration from ST communicators.
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