MacVoices #26250: Foreshadowing Tech - The Fictional Constructs That Inspired Real-World Communication Technologies (1)

As we approach the release of the newest iPhones, Chuck Joiner, Marty Jencius, and Jeff Gamet look at how science fiction and popular culture imagined modern communication long before the technology existed. From early video-phone concepts and Dick Tracy to Star Trek, Get Smart, Space: 1999, and more, the panel examine fictional devices that anticipated smartphones, wearables, Bluetooth earbuds, video calls, authentication, mobile computing, and maybe even foreshadow what's coming next. (Part 1)

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Show Notes: Chapters:

01:31 Introducing Jeff Gamet and Marty Jencius

02:47 Communication Devices and the Origins of Modern Tech

03:13 Early Cell Phones, The X-Files, and Mobile Communication

05:12 Car Phones, Batman, and The Magician

06:22 Communication Predictions from the 1800s and Early 1900s

07:28 E.M. Forster's Remarkably Prescient Connected World

09:08 Metropolis and Early Video Phones

09:59 Hugo Gernsback and Wireless Video Telephony

11:01 The Jetsons and Star Trek Video Phones