Star Trek and old Flip Phones

[@AlexVriairu]

Well, to be fair one of the main reasons we HAD flip phones when we did, is because the designers of Said Phones Watched Star Trek and said.. "Yeah I Want that." This was a pipe dream technology that inspired it's own creation.

[@jamesslick4790]

They also used to shove colorful squares in to computers on Star Trek. I'm sure that the 3.5" multi-color floppy disks were inspired by Star Trek!

[@jamesslick4790]

No doubt in my mind that "flip phones" were inspired by Star Trek!

[@bobagorof]

Bear in mind this series was filmed 10 years before one could have a phone in one's car, let alone on one's person - and that's even leaving aside the flip-technology. It's actually amazing the level of technological advancement we've made in the last 100 years but that we now take for granted.

[@jamesslick4790]

Car (mobile) phones have been available in the US twenty years BEFORE the first ever "Star Trek" episode: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Telephone_Service

[@orthicon9]

They were more like satellite phones, but even better, because it could reach the Enterprise in orbit on the other side of the planet. Unless there was interference from The Plot.