I recently asked a friend how the new Total Recall movie was; he said, "It was okay, it had a lot of cool future technology." To which I replied, "Like what?" He said, "Well you could make phone calls by just placing your hand on glass."

I yelled, "Are you kidding me?!?"

He said, "What?"

I said, "Give a character a phone that doesn't break when you drop it, that never runs out of battery, is waterproof, and isn't built like a tank -- then I'll be impressed!"

Get the basics down first.