Along a busy metropolitan street, people walk—some briskly on their way to work, some on a leisurely stroll—with cell phones to their ears, iPads in their hands, smartwatches counting their steps, or numerous other gadgets that appeared in science fiction decades before they were invented.
Science fiction may not have only predicted inventions ranging from those in aerospace to those in our daily lives, it may have even inspired many of them.
The commercial cell phone we know today was created in 1983 by Martin Cooper, according to Time magazine. The flip-phone model has its roots in the “Star Trek” television series airing from 1966-1969. Although Captain Kirk’s model was purely for ship-to-shore communications, the flip “communicator” and the flip-phone bear a remarkable similarity.
