scifi future predictions

[OddChild]

There are a lot of scifi movies that predicted products that later came into existance...


the Idea of the cell phones come from star trek..

i was just watching this movie,
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1001226815385204419&q=%22killers+from+space%22

towards 50:00 you can see these TV's that look like plasma screens.

interesting...

[hartnell]

Unfortunately, I'm on dialup so I can't watch it. I don't think sci-fi has much to do with it. I recently saw a promotional film for Bell labs made during the late 60's and it pretty much predicted the internet, fiber-optic cables, teleconferencing, and cellphones. The terminology was strange, the internet was called the "dataphone system", but you can tell that Bell Labs had the applications right. It even talked about ordering products through the "dataphone system."

Secondly, technology isn't always as new as it seems. I have an OMNI that talks about HDTV. It's an issue from 1982.

-hartnell