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Cellphones (1965)

Pinpointing which piece of science fiction conceptualized cell phones depends on how flexible your definition of “cell phone” is. But we’d posit that Star Trek pioneered the cell phone idea back in the series’ 1965 pilot.

Technically, the Star Trek communicator works exactly like a cell phone: Hit a button, and you can talk to someone else who’s really, really far away, so long as they have a communicator, too. Sure, there are no apps, but at least it does the core job, right?

But Star Trek’s writers and other sci-fi authors as a whole might have pulled inspiration from early 20th-century news reports. In 1909, Nikola Tesla, the legendary engineer and inventor, told The New York Times, “It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages all over the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.”

Of course, he was absolutely right. The world’s first mobile phone, created by Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, was created in 1973, about a decade after Star Trek launched and nearly 65 years after Tesla’s incredible prediction.

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