Star Trek IS the future!

[MrScorpio]

[Kaleva]

1. I hope we don't get those shirts that always need to be adjusted.

[Auggie]

3. +1

[hunter]

7. In the future you step into the shower and came out clean...

... with 3D-printed/painted on clothes.

If you were on going out on shore leave you could select "full body extra protection condom."

But that was too much for 20th century network television.

[pinboy3niner]

8. I just hope I don't get a red one

[OriginalGeek]

2. I don't mean to be contrary

but I sure don't remember phones like that in 1973. Did a time traveler mistakenly let himself be seen? they got rules about that in the future!

[jakeXT]

4. The first mobile phone was used in 1973, but it's weight was over 2 pounds

I always thought it was a tricorder, but it's just a communicator.

[Downwinder]

9. Dick Tracy pioneered the wrist phone.

[OriginalGeek]

10. I had a boss in the early 90s

that was so proud of his bag phone. Biggest, dumbest-looking thing I ever saw but he felt important lugging that thing around. And then he'd get mad at ya if you called him on it becasue it cost him so much. lol

[pinboy3niner]

11. I had a boss who suggested I be provided with a briefcase phone like his

That was in the late '80s when it took a briefcase to carry some mobile setups.

I simply pointed out to him that, with a pay phone within a hundred yards of where I was working, it would be an unnecessary and extravagant expense for our small nonprofit org.

Of course, I also knew that being tethered to the office by a mobile phone would significantly increase demands from HQ and the additional communication time alone would cut into the time I had to actually be doing my job.

It was a narrow escape.

[hunter]

14. I carried a "lunch box" phone when I was on call for my work.

Sometimes I had to call the transplant techs or they had to call me.

I remember the first time the cell phone rang while I was driving.

Common sense told me to pull over.

Anyways I'd get to the hospital with a lunch-box sized cooler carrying body parts in one hand, and a lunch-box sized cell phone in the other, feeling sad for the person who's body parts were in the cooler, hopeful for the person who was going to receive them.

I got my own cell phone a dozen years later and I still use it whenever I absolutely must.

$7.00 a month, very limited. I'm probably the last person in the U.S.A. on that plan. They've been trying to get me to "upgrade" for years, but I've never got to the point where I want to talk to anyone on a cell phone unless it's an emergency.

[Callmecrazy]

5. If he never returned to the future...

He would be okay. Can't break a law that ain't written yet.
That's your classic wormhole loophole.

[Iggo]

6. Hey, cool!

[Paulie]

12. Yeah a couple dates are off

That flip phone I would place in the mid 90's as earlier candy bar style was everywhere.

The video conferencing is mid 90's as I did that via dial up on PRI lines internationally.

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. Awesome, but let's not do the whole World War III part and skip forward to

better days!

[felix_numinous]

15. I wish we would do away with money

... it is a good dream

[mucifer]

16. Lets not forget the shoe phone from the '60s

and now:
http://realshoephone.com/

[Kablooie]

17. When will tribbles appear?