What is something considered impossible when you were a kid but is now known to be completely possible or even inevitable?
What is something considered impossible when you were a kid but is now known to be completely possible or even inevitable?
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Phones doing a good chunk of what computers can
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I mean it's almost wrong handed to call something like an iPhone or Android device a "phone" because it's really a pocket computer that, among many other things, can place phone calls.
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For that reason, I like how they are called Hand Terminals in the Expanse (books, I dont think they are referred to at all in the show)
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In fact the thing that irritates me is how useless a smart phone is without a connection to the internet. You have to put in actual effort to make actual use of its local power.
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Combined with the Internet a "phone" - as we still charmingly call it - does what the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy could do.
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A good chunk? My watch is far more capable than my first computer, many times the storage, and its screen has more pixels
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