Task, you touched on a very interesting point, sometimes I keep thinking that 50 years ago people had no idea what we have here today.
I know they imagined "flying cars" and also robots doing the cleaning (well, that's until they got it right). But today we see that with the advancement of technology, more specifically the internet, we have several possibilities at our fingertips.
Sending a message to someone in Japan in seconds or even calling someone in a video conference... it's something so normal and there's nothing absurd about it... but saying that to someone in the past could have been tremendously absurd.