Titled "When We All Have Pocket Telephones", this Daily Mirror comic strip was drawn by the artist William Kerridge Haselden and envisioned a world where "pocket telephones" as he called them dominated every aspect of our lives. True enough that has been the case for our world today.
However, no matter how prophetic it might look, the artist wasn't exactly keen on how such "pocket telephones" would look like as a few of the illustrations only hinted at a telephone ringing in somebody's coat or inside pocket. The others depicted what looks like the receiver end of a handset telephone.
This wasn't the first time cellphones had been imagined as people had already been talking about a 'pocket phone' as early as 1906, with Charles E. Alden claiming that he had created a device considered a precursor to the cellphone. However, it wasn't until 1973, when the first ever cellphone will actually reach the market, with Motorola's DynaTAC 8000X.
Who knows? We already have talking robots and self-driving cars, so perhaps, teleportation and long-distance space travel, ones that go beyond our galaxy, may become possible in the next 50 years? I just hope I'll still be alive to witness it.
(Image credit: W. K. Haselden)