8 Ways Mass Effect Eerily Predicted The Future
6. Smart Watches
The great thing about smart watches, is they do everything. Well, everything that has an app for it: Check emails, make voice calls, play games, browse the internet - and cheat in pub quizzes. They can also tell the time. You can even pretend to be an action-adventure astronaut, communicating with mission control from the comfort of your wrist.
In Mass Effect, you do that for real. Their omni-tools may not have invented the concept of the smart watch, but they never really became truly popular until around 2013 – six years after Mass Effect introduced us to the omnipresent omni-tool.
What Mass Effect did, though, was predict that this wearable technology would become omnipresent. Apparently these things are standard issue at birth. Everyone seems to own one, tapping away on its wrist-based virtual interface without once taking their mobile phone out of their pocket.
The major difference between smart watches and omni-tools is the vastly decreased availability of weapons in your average Apple Watch. For now, anyway.