Inspired by Star Trek? |
I remember watching Star Trek and the characters carried
around flat tablets, that they typed on to do their reports or used to read
books. At a time when lap-top computers
were non-existent the actors and actresses were walking around with fake Kindle’s
and Nooks.
So what is going on here?
Are there Aliens feeding scientists and Hollywood similar
information? Hollywood challenges our
idea of what is normal technology. While
the Aliens with guide the scientists to “invent” the new possibility? OR is Hollywood just more creative than our
inventors. In the lab do they say, “Hey
did you see (movie or TV show) they had a mockup of an (item name) could we
make in reality? What would it
take? Let’s give it a try.”
When I was in my early 20’s, I worked at the local cable TV
company with my mother. Our competition
was the satellite dish: those six foot wide monsters that people put on big
rods in their back yard. There was one
customer that used to come in and tell us that the future was that people were
going to walk around with a watch-looking apparatus on their wrist that would
consist of a miniature satellite dish and a TV.
He passed away many years ago.
But I can’t help but think of him and wonder what he would think of our
smart phones. No miniature satellite dishes
or at least that small. They have gotten
smaller and now hang on the sides of houses or are placed on the roofs of
houses. But they are not miniaturized and
hanging on our wrists. I don’t think he
ever thought that wireless/cell phones would go from those huge packs that
people carried around to something that fit into your pocket and could stream
TV shows or do almost any computer function.
What do you see for the future? Will we have an implant above our eyebrow
that connects to our brain and when we want to know something we will just
think about it and the answer will assimilate into our thoughts? (Star-Trek the
next generation.) Will they put the
implants on people in prisons to rehabilitate the prisoners? Over-ride their free will with corrective
actions? Will they put it on people
suffering from mental illness to change their thoughts to positive, confident
and build their self-esteem?
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