It’s always interesting to see where art imitates life, and where art sets the standard that life follows. One of the obvious examples is from the original Start Trek, where their communicators predated our own cell phones. Now some people are trying to say that blogging was conceived of by a very forward thinking 19th century Russian Prince who liked to write speculative fiction. http://www.mosnews.com/feature/2005/10/10/bloggingpredicted.shtml