Star Trek Comes To The Real World

April 18, 2008 by IM Buzzter
Filed under Trends

Besides being one of the most popular series of television shows ever, Star Trek—from the original back in the 1960s all they way through “Enterprise”—has inspired inventors, scientists and anyone who became intrigued with the futuristic technology into making it reality.

In some areas, reality is catching up to fiction much faster than even Gene Roddenberry could have foreseen. Let’s face it… flip phones bear an uncanny resemblance to Captain Kirk’s communicator, don’t they? And the internet… could possibly be a forerunner to Memory Alpha. It is interesting to note, however, that some of the most intriguing inventions from science fiction to reality are in the field of medicine.