Not a device. It's an invitation to explore the frontier

"Hide your loved ones. Bicycles are coming."

The evolution of bicycle would indeed be an interesting case study (if not studied already). After the initial depiction, it was pretty incremental thereafter, with some crazy things in-between (penny-farthing), don't you think?

"When the iPhone first came out, the biggest objection was its lack of a physical keyboard. But with additional predictive technology, a device with no keyboard was usable without fanfare."

And Nokia had it well-before Apple, but, oh well, such and such.