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- lear, on 05/09/2009, -1/+27communicators became cell phones.
- spritom, on 05/09/2009, -3/+25Is it just me? Or is there a flurry of these "Star-Trek-technology-is-getting-real" articles?
- TheInformer, on 05/09/2009, -1/+21I was laughed at when I was a kid for liking Star Trek. Those same kids that laughed at me then now have cell phones that look like communicators. I had a lot of fun at my class reunion lol.
- Arsenard, on 05/09/2009, -0/+19Zephram Cochrane, inventor of the warp drive, was not born until 2032!!!
- cmcagle, on 05/09/2009, -3/+13Tek? Really? "Tech" wasn't abbreviated enough, you had to save yourself the .05 seconds it takes to press that extra key?
- Xybr, on 05/09/2009, -1/+9The iPhone is kinda like a tricorder. The BlueTooth headsets remind me of Uhura's ear-piece. Laptops remind me of the data console on Picard's desk. The Kindle just needs a touchscreen to become a PADD. USB Thumb Drives and Memory Sticks remind me of Isolinear Data Chips.
And they say Star Trek has no influence... - TheAmazingDon, on 05/09/2009, -1/+8Someone should find the History Channel show "How William Shatner Changed the World" so the Shat himself can tell us all these wonderful things.
- mpn401, on 05/09/2009, -0/+5I don't think there will ever be an AI that runs off traditional silicon-based computers. The real promise lies in organic computing; using what already exists and making it better. Just a few years ago I read about rat neurons that anylized patterns in a flight simulator and kept the plane steady with little human intervention.
- inactive, on 05/09/2009, -1/+5I don't recall HAL being exposed to the monolith. I thought it had to do more with the secret orders he was given, which because of a series of random circumstances led to him becoming convinced he had to kill the crew in order to carry out those orders.
- peters1023, on 05/09/2009, -0/+4Dude a tricorder is used as a sensor of sorts. iPhone is not even close.
- inactive, on 05/09/2009, -0/+4Just watched the TNG ep where q introduces them to the borg for the first time.
New movie be damned, new TNG please! - inactive, on 05/09/2009, -2/+6What do you expect? Star Trek is not just entertainment, it's a portrayal of a future that many of us hope is the destiny of our species. It's a model for what we hope society will become, and as corny as it sounds, that's a large part of the appeal.
- mikemehak, on 05/09/2009, -1/+5there has been a lot.
I think there is a new Star Trek movie coming out and it's making hype - sadisticmind, on 05/09/2009, -0/+3The G1 has a tricorder app.
http://code.google.com/p/tricorder/ - peters1023, on 05/09/2009, -0/+3I think you're on to something
- chuckwh, on 05/09/2009, -1/+4Who's the dude in the blue shirt? That doesn't look at all like Sylar.
- minnepinne, on 05/09/2009, -0/+2We need more engineers to make our sci-fi dreams come true.
- Tyrghast, on 05/09/2009, -0/+2Hate to tell you but LOOK UP THE WORD REIMAGINING. This isn't a movie based off the TV show, it's an attempt at a fresh start.
- TheAmazingDon, on 05/09/2009, -1/+3I'm sorry, I can't let you do that kevro.
-macweirdo - chronopublish, on 05/09/2009, -0/+2I stopped watching after he stopped to clarify that "eye candy" is "candy for your eyes".
- PixelMagic, on 05/09/2009, -1/+3Spocker*
- Nicoon, on 05/09/2009, -0/+2Not having seen the new Star Trek yet, can't you like both with the respect of them being separate entities?
- abhiroop, on 05/09/2009, -3/+4These articles are really quite boring, yes we know some things exist, and some don't! The first were interesting but now its the same old thing!
- Duggan360, on 05/10/2009, -0/+1What?!
- antdude, on 05/10/2009, -0/+11 print page: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com ...
- mksmothers, on 05/10/2009, -0/+1fiction.
- wizkid32, on 05/09/2009, -0/+1Both real and fiction. One knows the we can't teleport but warpdrives are coming soon.
- theskillwithin, on 05/09/2009, -0/+1Star Trek, real or fiction?
this is a question of definition, why don't we look up star trek and see if its under fiction or non-fiction. - Grueslayer, on 05/10/2009, -0/+1It's fiction that's slowly becoming a reality. A lot of the theories in the Star Trek universe are real theories our scientists have published. Even little things thrown in there for color are based on real theory. Like the transporters are only possible because they have a Heisenberg Compensator... which is based on Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle theorized by a real physicist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg - okcoolok1234, on 05/09/2009, -0/+1A review of the New Star Trek film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIL7v73Isjg - nydwarf, on 05/12/2009, -0/+1Pretty safe to say it's fiction, because it is fiction!
- Wilddigi, on 05/09/2009, -1/+2I've watched Star Trek for 30 years. I've seen every episode, every movie and every series hundreds of times. I still watch Star Trek on Justine.TV every day still. I saw the movie last night and It sucked. The only good thing about this movie was watching Leonard Nimoy playing the real Spock. The Enterprise looked the Apple Store next to the theatre that I saw the move. We don't even see the Ship. Everyone is running around and the camera pans every second. And watching James T. Kirk eating an Apple during the Kobayashi Maru made me cringe. Seriously, the real and original Star Trek is dead. Alternate timeline my arse. Get a real Star Trekkie director.
- theskillwithin, on 05/09/2009, -0/+1facts get buried a lot on digg.
- Shakuras, on 05/09/2009, -1/+2Real Fiction
- Hipser, on 05/09/2009, -0/+1you know, if you had been first, that would have gotten upvoted...
- kevro, on 05/09/2009, -1/+1HAL was close to the monolith and evolved in to a human intelligence as Dave evolved to the next step, the star-child. I'm pretty sure Dave did not get secret instructions to do so.
- Gee1004, on 05/09/2009, -1/+1Whoever liked the new movie, never understood Star Trek.
- Gee1004, on 05/09/2009, -1/+1I agree. New movie sucked
- EatingPie, on 05/09/2009, -2/+2The AI section emphasizes that our visions of future AIs is almost always something bad. Even the movie I, Robot had malevolent AIs, though Asimov specifically wrote I, Robot because he was tired of seeing Bad Robots in practically every story out there!
This begs the question: Why are we pursuing this technology when practically every philosophical and artistic extrapolation of AI leads to mankind's enslavement/destruction?
Jurrasic Park (the book) was ultimately a statement about the lack of ethics or morals in science. Science has no limits... science for science's sake is all the justification we need. But sometimes we *should* stand back and ask ourselves "Is it right to pursue this technology? What are the consequences?" Unfortunately, we never really do.
-Pie - Gee1004, on 05/09/2009, -2/+2so is your comment. It's just 1's and 0's on Digg's server
- BoneheadFarker, on 05/09/2009, -1/+1Hate to tell you, but Star trek was in it's dying throws with Voyager, and was killed off by Enterprise. This is a reboot...
- FLUX, on 05/09/2009, -1/+1Star Trek is turning into huffpoo with all these spammed articles to try to up the movies publicity
this is the 5th computerword article about star trek to hit the front page in 3 days
stop the spam - wobudong, on 05/09/2009, -0/+0Uh-oh!
I thought it was wasp-drive.
Darn. - BoneheadFarker, on 05/09/2009, -1/+1I disagree. Nemesis was a little predictable and patronizing, but provided a good end for the Enterprise E crew. I think it was worth seeing in the theater. Enterprise was hamstrung from day one because of all the time-war *****, despite throwing it away and picking up good stories in the last season. Had they gone with that at the beginning, it would have gone the full 7 seasons the next-gen shows had. But the time-war was the death of Star Trek. It had merely been going through the motions during the 4th season. The final episode of Enterprise was the finishing blow. To end the series on the Enterprise D during the Pegesus mission was anticlimatic to say the least.
But yes, Voyager was mostly crap... - venom8599, on 05/09/2009, -1/+1Actually the finishing blow was Nemesis. Despite all the crap it got, Enterprise wasn't bad--and was actually starting to come into it's own during the final season. Voyager was mostly crap though.
- PixelMagic, on 05/09/2009, -2/+2You're off to a good start with socialist Obama in the White House!
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I'm not serious, just making fun of the Repubtards before they can post it for real. - inactive, on 05/09/2009, -2/+1WTF are you babbling about? HAL wasn't near any monolith until they got to Jupiter, you idiot. And I'm talking about his orders to keep the monolith a secret from the crew, not secret instructions about evolving, you ***** nut.
- apzdsx, on 05/09/2009, -3/+2From all the rabbid fanboyism you'd think Star Trek itself would be real.
- inactive, on 05/09/2009, -3/+2cell phones became communicator-like.
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