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09 May, 2013

Star Trek in the 1960s offered audiences fictional technology, some of which decades later is becoming reality. "Communicators" are today's mobile phones; touch-screen "pads" resemble iPads; "phasers" are Tasers; "the universal language translators", an Android app. Telepresence has been adopted in robotics and videoconferencing. All we're waiting for is the tricorder.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/personal-tech/cult-of-the-uss-enterprise-thrives-at-google-and-resistance-is-futile/story-e6frgazf-1226637828681