• PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
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    14 days ago

    I’m also not buying the idea that star trek was needed to invent cellphones after we had already invented wireless communication

    • Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      13 days ago

      Needed? No

      Directly inspired? Literally yes. Look up a communicator and compare it to an early flip phone, for example. Also the nerds who did it admitted it lol