Some of our tech is even better.
It showcased technologies that were miraculous for the era it was born in.
Fast forward to today, and we can see Star Trek’s influence on our technological landscape.
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Take the communicators in the original Star Trek series.
Various companies and research institutions are now working on creating real-world versions of the tricorder.
Star Trek’s voice-activated computer systems are another technological prophecy that’s come to fruition.
No one is going to beam you up, but you can still order pizza with it.
Data, an android with a positronic brain, was the epitome of artificial intelligence.
It’s also constantly learning and evolving, something that Data struggled with throughout the series.
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Data’s creators, Dr. Noonien Soong, claimed he was capable of sixty trillion operations per second.
But there’s no contest when you compare them to our smartphones and tablets.
Our devices are slimmer, more powerful, and more functional than communicators and PADDs.
Not to mention the superior graphics and display capabilities of our devices.
That being said, there’s still something undeniably sexy aboutLCARS.
I have two robot vacuums already, but maybe there’s an organic cleaning crew on Starfleet ships?
OSHA would have shut the whole thing down years ago.
Some fuses would help, and what happened to seatbelts?
In contrast, our technology is far more stable.
We have our fair share of glitches and bugs, but our tech seldom results in explosions.
I really, really still wantreplicatorsto be a thing, but I hope we never inventtransporters!
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