Originally Posted by Rock Chuck
Originally Posted by chlinstructor
Remember when Dick Tracy had the little wrist watch phone ?
Yup, and whenever he used it, we got the little caption '2 way wrist radio'. I liked the 1 man magnetic air cars. I could think of thousands of uses for one of those.

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Lol,
Dick Tracy...
You guys are dating yourselves.

The best I can come up with is that Tesla came up with the idea.

Later on in the 30s HG Wells wrote a couple books that mentioned wireless communication. He predicted this as he did many other future inventions. What makes it interesting are his VIP connections to several illuminati members. He had a role to play too.

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301391h.html

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200221.txt