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

    • NoIWontPickAName
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      31 year ago

      No, because your smartphone needs internet, tv signals reach way more places, and more reliably.

      Especially since broadcast tv, in America ya damn Limeys, is free, while internet is either very localized (WiFi, etc…) which may or may not be free, or wide spread (Cell phones, Satellites, etc…) which are definitely pay.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      21 year 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

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Or, I would reply yes, totally. It’s called a smart phone, and load up the literal television app called YouTube TV

      • MxM111
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        81 year 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.