For the jellies that were adults (or young adults) in the 1960's or 70's: Would you have believed that everyone in the future would carry a personal device, that did a bunch of things that you couldn't even do back then?

Think about it. Our cellphones do so much more than just act as personal portable phones. I can stream music form the internet on mine. I can check my email. I can EVEN order food with my phone without actually verbally conversing with a soul.

The closest thing in the 1960’s to a text message was the telegraph. (or possibly some sort of computer communication) The point is most everything I do on my phone, would not even be easily explained to someone in that era.

If the Iphone or Droid, with all of the capabilities it has today was released in 1965… would anyone had have believed it worked? Would anyone have used it?

Do you believe that it was the slow progression to this current stage of our technological prowess that made these devices so successful?

Jarrasic Park made me think of this question, with this quote by Dr. Ian Malcolm played by Jeff Goldblum. ” I’ll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you’re using here: it didn’t require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn’t earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don’t take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you’re selling it, you want to sell it.”

It does not fully apply to what I am asking, it just sparked my thought.