Ways in which this is not the future (special telephonic edition)

1. The shiny new smart phone I just got, which has more CPU grunt and nonvolatile memory all to itself than I had to share with 1000 other undergraduates in 1995, does not function as a telephone outside the continental USA.
2. It can talk to satellites in space and find out where I am standing, but cannot deduce from this that I am standing at a bus stop, nor find out when the next bus will arrive.
3. AT&T (thankfully, as of day before yesterday, my former telephone carrier) has just billed me nearly four dollars a minute for a phone call to New Zealand.