Helena G. Wells | H.G. Wells (changetherules) wrote in thedoorway, @ 2013-09-22 20:54:00 |
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7. Cell Phones
She may not have called them cellular phones, but Wells definitely predicted them. She described wireless communication devices in her 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come. She even created something very similar to modern email and voice mail in her 1923 book Men Like Gods:
"A message is sent to the station of the district in which the recipient is known to be, and there it waits until he chooses to tap his accumulated messages. And any that one wishes to repeat can be repeated. Then he talks back to the senders and dispatches any other messages he wishes."