Just as a
science fiction story tries to
predict the future and our reactions to it, it is also a
slave to the
concepts of the
age it was written in.
A writer can have a great insight into the possible and a creative imagination, but the possible is often chained to existing paradigms.
For example, for all of the great SF created in the pre-personal computer/laptop/pda/cell phone days, the only well-known character to ever use a personal technology device was Dick Tracy (Agent 86 in the TV Series Get Smart carried a rotary-dial phone in his shoe, but that was more humor than prediction).
Everyone else in speculative popular fiction carried satchel-sized computers and electronics, and while there may have been a computer on a spacecraft, there was never one in the astronaut's hand, or on a desktop. If there was, it was only a terminal for a mainframe in the walls of the ship or the basement of the house.
Even Asimov or Clarke, with their predictions of ubiquitous computing, always referred to larger systems integrated into houses, buildings, and cities, but never integral to an individual character, unless it was linked to said huge out-of-sight mainframe.
A more specific example of paradigm entrapment can be found in the movie Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan. There is a scene where Bones is giving Kirk a pair of antique glasses. They were an interesting plot device that was carried through to the third film. Bones tells Kirk the reason he is giving him glasses is because of Kirk's allergy to the drug that they treat farsightedness with. The movie was made before laser eye surgery.
An even more recent example can be found in the film Minority Report. The film makes a great deal of the intrusive nature of that future society based upon iris scanning technology to find out who everyone is at all times and where they are. Even the ad posters our hero Tom Cruise passes by scan his eye and pitch personalized messages to him as he walks by. This depiction didn't take into consideration the much more cost-effective and even more intrusive technology of RFID (although a variation of RFID was used in the more "socially visionary" (IMHO) Demolition Man in the form of tags embedded in the back of the hand.)
Science fiction will always betray the writer's and his or her society's predjudices about what is feasible. It may be very extrapolative in some areas, but in others it will almost certainly be blind to future developments. Of course, that's part of the fun.