star trek technology becoming a reality
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Mayhem
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Leonard Nimoy gave an interview where he said that he took out his cell phone and flipped it open and everyone around him started cracking up. That's Star Trek tech right there.
Could you imagine a scripwriter for the show, back in the '60s dreaming up an IPAD or touch screen technology and trying to portray it on the show? He'd probably get fired for being too freaky. :1orglaugh
Could you imagine a scripwriter for the show, back in the '60s dreaming up an IPAD or touch screen technology and trying to portray it on the show? He'd probably get fired for being too freaky. :1orglaugh
StanScratch
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Until they invent a machine that I can walk into that will magically transport me straight between the elevated legs of Zooey Deschanel, I feel a lot of work is to be done.
I think when it comes to the tech of trek, the small hand held items are quite realistic. As Mayhem said, the touch screen pad, the mobile phone, energy based weaponry is evolving at a startling pace.
The larger things like starships are for the moment well beyond our means for a few generations, some of the others though I think will always be flights of fancy (Things like the transporter, replicator etc)
I wont dismiss warp drive though, that is one I am a firm believer we will develop in some fashion. Faster than light travel will be a reality someday, scientists of today say its impossible, but look at what we take for granted that was dismissed as fiction only 50 years ago. We as a species don't have the means and the knowledge to readily dismiss anything, we are ******** in the grand scale of the galaxy - Stephen Hawking himself said it, if you can imagine it, it can happen.
The larger things like starships are for the moment well beyond our means for a few generations, some of the others though I think will always be flights of fancy (Things like the transporter, replicator etc)
I wont dismiss warp drive though, that is one I am a firm believer we will develop in some fashion. Faster than light travel will be a reality someday, scientists of today say its impossible, but look at what we take for granted that was dismissed as fiction only 50 years ago. We as a species don't have the means and the knowledge to readily dismiss anything, we are ******** in the grand scale of the galaxy - Stephen Hawking himself said it, if you can imagine it, it can happen.
StanScratch
My Penis Is Dancing!
I am really going to have to watch the series again. I seem to remember more than a few times Kirk being given an Ipad-like object for him to go over reports, or something like that. The device was never really featured, just kind of like shown in passing. It could also be that this device was used in TNG, as well (or instead).
EDIT: A quick Google proved me right: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/08/how-star-trek-artists-imagined-the-ipad-23-years-ago.ars
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skynet is here... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6434773.stm
The holodeck would be brilliant if dangerous especially if it was really realistic - you`d never be able to leave it as you worked your way through screwing all the pornstars you could think of and all the celebs you`d ever fantasized about, not to mention all the women you know in real life who you`ve fantasized about.
