[EID] Predictive SF?

[Grant Watson]

Pretty sure Star Trek is well ahead of John Birmingham with that one...

G.

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Dalrymple, Garry
<Garry.Dalrymple at det.nsw.edu.au> wrote:
> Dear All
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> ‘Grace Cormet’s telephone buzzed.    She took it out of her pocket and said,
> ‘Yes?’
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> That passage was from Robert Heinlein’s short story, ‘We also Walk Dogs’,
> published in a 1954 copyrighted Anthology, ‘The Green hills of Earth’,
> described on the back of the book as the second book of the future History
> series about life in the 21st Century.      Is this a first ever SF
> description of a wireless mobile phone being a routine device?
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> In John Birmingham’s ‘World War 2.1’ series the ‘pad’ computer is the
> universal personal possession / communication device.     Has this
> ‘prediction’ already been superceded by the powers of the just recently
> announced Apple Ipad?
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> Anyone care to suggest instances of items that were optimistically
> ‘predicted in SF’ but which arrived ahead of time in the real world?
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> Garry P Dalrymple
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> Still waiting for my Aircar and personal jet pack
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