8 Sep
2016
8 Sep
'16
10:34 a.m.
On Thu, 8 Sep 2016, Murray McCullough wrote:
What role did Star Trek play in the rise of small
computers that are
so ubiquitous today? This science fiction series prognosticated many
things but how many actually happened or am I expecting too much from
a television show of 50 years ago?
ALL of our computer science, science in general, medicine, transportation
is BASED on Star Trek.
That's why we speak into the mouse. And use so much transparent aluminum.
We would certainly never have bothered to develop mobile phones without
copying them from Star Trek. It's a good thing that Star Trek kept us
from following the dead-end of "clamshell"
portable computers!
Half a century ago, the National Safety Council was actually quite pissed
off at Star Trek for refusing to have seatbelts on the bridge command
chairs.