T-Rex: I've read a lot of science fiction from the 60s, and I have noticed a strange trend...
T-Rex: ...in not one of them do they call their futuristic pocket computers "phones"!
T-Rex: Lots of them have portable computers in 'em - or at the very least, portable terminals to computers so large they can only exist in hyperspace - but they always have cool names like "global uplink" or "EarthComm" or at the VERY least, "microcomputer". Not "phone"! I barely even use my phone AS a phone, and yet, that's what we all still call them!
Utahraptor: Companies tried to make "smartphone" and "superphone" a thing.
T-Rex: And that's STILL based on "phone"!
T-Rex: It's like if we all called cars "AM radios": that's only ONE thing they do, and nobody buys 'em for that reason! It's so disappointing that we named the most futuristic things we ever invented - pocket access to a global information network! - the dullest, most misleading, silliest name possible.
Narrator: MEANWHILE, IN AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE:
T-Rex: Aw crap, I dropped my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch in the toilet!
Narrator: WAIT THIS IS OUR UNIVERSE, NEVERMIND
