Demolition Man was released in 1993. That same year AT&T released its promotional video, Connections: AT&T's vision of the future, which was a slice of life in 2013 (I think the video is up on line, a blog called Paleo-Futures had it all up, with analysis, a few years ago). Showed it in my class last year and everyone was commenting on the lack of cell phones there, too. Just not part of the popular imagination at the time, apparently. Greg Wise ________________________________________ From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Barry Wellman [wellman@chass.utoronto.ca] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 3:04 PM To: aoir list; communication and information technology section asa Subject: [Air-L] the cell-less future Demolition Man ran last nite, with Stallone, Snipes and Bullock. But what got my attention was the abundance of public phones on poles and the concomittant absence of mobile phones. In what is supposed to be 2032. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/