Ah-nold's family gets betrayed by that technology as the bad guys are led to his daughter's recital because of an entry prominently posted on the calendar, with address and everything. A few futuristic elements aren't too far off. NFL quarterbacks today can receive one-way radio transmissions into their helmets from coaches on the sideline. The coaches can only relay the play being called, and the transmission is shut down well before the play is run. Considering the business plan of the emerging XFL, it won't be long before such technology is enabled.
Consumers even make cash payments by pressing their thumb to a touch-screen.
Strangely, biometrics makes more sense than any of the technologies portrayed here, but it's the farthest off in reality. Vendors and technology adopters keep hesitating on deploying it, but I've yet to see compelling evidence that consumers would reject it. Send in the clones We often look to the movies and literature to help us shape our vision of the future, and more times than not, the books and films are remarkably prescient. From H.G. Wells and Jules Verne to Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury and Ursula K. Le Guin to the William Gibsons and Neal Stephensons of today, we begin to understand not what technologies are in store for us, but what our relationship with them will be. Such literature also can be bold in positing ways that the hard moral questions presented by technology are dealt with.