As a kid I imagined the future as being able to hold a TV in your pocket, and flying skateboards. For the latter I guess electric scooters will have to do

    • BeatTakeshi@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 months ago

      I know it’s semantics, but if your great-gramps would time travel to today, he would ask about your pocket TV, and you would reply nah, it’s a smartphone

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        5 months ago

        Which is actually not smartphone, but a general purpose computer with cell internet connection that can be used for many things, one of those is actually calling.