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Cool story, but I'ma need some sources for these points. Submarines, for example, predate HG Wells by a lot. They even predate the other major novel about one, by Jules Verne. I absolutely agree that fiction sparks innovation, but let's use sourced examples instead of just throwing stuff out there.
I'm also not buying the idea that star trek was needed to invent cellphones after we had already invented wireless communication
Needed? No
Directly inspired? Literally yes. Look up a communicator and compare it to an early flip phone, for example. Also the nerds who did it admitted it lol
fair enough