If
I were to - only twenty years ago - write about a man being woken up by
a small slab-shaped computer (which was also a phone) which presented
him with a selected feed of news tailored to his individual political
outlooks and personal interests via a wireless connection, and that said
phone would provide him with a traffic update for his route to work,
plus all public transport timetables at the swipe of a touch-sensitive
screen, that his coffee maker would read the barcodes of the pods
inserted into it and adjust its own settings accordingly to provide the
perfect cup to go with his breakfast, and that his car, when he got to
work would be able to park itself with minimal input from him, no
publisher on Earth would have accepted it, saying the concepts were 'too
outlandish'.
Yet here we are.
