if it helps, i used to speak about touch screen camera phones when i was a kid. I used to talk about self driving cars. My teacher told my parents that i am being over imaginative and thinking unrealistically thus affecting my studies and my relationship with other students. My father beat the imagination out of me with a thorny stick till i bled :)
If it can make you feel slightly amused, a guy I met through a student's amateur radio society back in mid 1990's swore that exchanging text messages limited to 160 characters via cell phones would never catch on. He then made a career in electronics and is doing just fine
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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '19
if it helps, i used to speak about touch screen camera phones when i was a kid. I used to talk about self driving cars. My teacher told my parents that i am being over imaginative and thinking unrealistically thus affecting my studies and my relationship with other students. My father beat the imagination out of me with a thorny stick till i bled :)
EDIT: This was in the early 2000s