The majority of people would not have expected that a few generations ahead of them, that people would be able to watch this extraordinary event on a device small enough to put in their pockets. Although having a portable phone was being predicted a century ago, and the horror of it possibly going off at weddings and other inconvenient times was lampooned with uncanny accuracy back in 1919 in the Daily Mirror. 

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The daily mirror's cartoonist W.K Hazeldean wasn't the only one prescient of today's technology. Nikolai Tesla was recorded in Collier's magazine 1926 saying "We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do this will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket."