Space is really spread out, and we will forever lack the means to get around it fast. Space also happens to be highly inhospitable to human life. For these reasons, I submit that no human will ever go farther than Mars.
Space is really spread out, and we will forever lack the means to get around it fast. Space also happens to be highly inhospitable to human life. For these reasons, I submit that no human will ever go farther than Mars.
I mean, there’s people who did, going back pretty far. Just not the exact societal impact they would have. The laws of physics have been nearly complete for many decades, so don’t expect a life of true surprises like a person born in 1870 would have experienced.
If you actually read this, OP says there’s little point going anywhere in the solar system other than Earth. There’s barren ricks right here if that’s your thing, and they even come with free oxygen, gravity and radiation shielding. The rest is about interstellar travel.
People imagined all kinds of portable computers but none resembled a smartphone, as far as I’m aware. If I’m wrong, I’ll be happy to learn about examples.
The Star Trek Communicator somewhat resembles it, and that is from 1964.
The Star Trek communicator was basically a walkie talkie. That was well established technology at the time and had nothing whatsoever to do with a smartphone.
The first commercial smartphone was released 31 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon