From Science fiction to reality

[mpicco]

https://imgur.com/aebGDz8

Happens all the time. If you think about it a 4G enabled iPad (other tablets are available) is, essentially, the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and flip phones were the communicators from Star Trek.

Might even be worth a thread.

I agree!

Add flat screens with 4k resolution (or more), Virtual Reality, and recently the first project for a probe that is meant to visit other star systems:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart...-probes-nearest-star-system-180958745/?no-ist

 

[NecroJoe]

 

[Cowboy]

 

[Dr_Grip]

[video=youtube;-OrXLIB05RY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OrXLIB05RY[/video]
There's a documentary about how Star Trek inspired people to make the world more Star Trek. Narrated by Shatner himself.

 

[CD82]

No disrespect to Shatner, but shouldn't Roddenberry be in the title of that YT video? After all, Star Trek was his idea/vision.

 

[GRtak]

Do you really believe that the Shatner will let anyone else take credit for ideas that weren't his?

 

[prizrak]

While highly controversial but GMOs, however one feels about them the fact that we can alter an organism's genes is craxy

 

[Dr_Grip]

No disrespect to Shatner, but shouldn't Roddenberry be in the title of that YT video? After all, Star Trek was his idea/vision.

Do you really believe that the Shatner will let anyone else take credit for ideas that weren't his?

Shatner is clearly making fun of himself all through the video. The title is very tongue-in-cheek...

 

[Tesla60]

I never thought we'd have video calls on phones but we do now! Awesome side by side for SpaceX!