In todays society we use a lot of technology. We use cell phones to call are parents in other states. We use tablets to read literature and surf the web. We even have speech reconition so we dont have to even use a keyboard or mouse. So what if I told you none of this would have been possible with out a little television show that got canceled 3/4s into there 3rd season. Believe it or not there are a lot of other technologys that came true because of this television show. A few of them you would have never imagioned could have been possible. This weird little show named Star Trek, changed the world. Now for some technologys that you have never herd about.
One technology that has revolutionized medicin and scicence is the hand scanner. Compairable to a Tricorder (6- page to:02:11:00, page to:02:04:00). Scanners such as a hand held scanner for doctors to see infections of the inner ear. The scanner has a 3D view and relies on a technology called OCT that uses light the same way an ultra sound uses sound. The device mesures the time it takes for the light to bounce back to the device. A computer algorithim builds a 3-D picture off of this data(7). Before this they used a light with a magnifyer. I think we all remember the doctor getting the right size attachment and putting it in your ear. Not the funnest thing to deal with in the world. For science we have x-ray fluorescence analyzers. XRF scanners emit X-ray signals at an element. The X-rays emmited read a kind of “fingerprint” that every specific element have. XRF scanners either use small x-ray tubes or a canister of radioactive meterial(8). Wait till these and other technologys are put into one device. We will have a real world tricorder. Think of the posibilities if we could pop out are handy dandy scanner and find out if you friend is dieing because he got shot in a drive by.
You may of thought it was myth but there is something similar to transparent aluminum. Its called aluminum oxynitride, ALON for short. It is made from ceramic dust and presure. Simmilar to the process of making glass it is made into something similar, the only difference it can with stand a bullet. Polishing and molding stranthen it even more. Maybe when scotty gave the formula away it actually made it to modern day? Maybe but we have no proof(3 page 2). I guess we will just have to hope he didnt modify the time line too much. We all know how mad Captain Braxton would be.
Wouldnt it be great to have a room you could just go into and interact with your favorite historical figure? Well we are getting close there are some technologies that make it possible. Technologies like Oculus rift (1). The Oculus Rift is a device that gives you 110 degrees of view. Mostly directed at gamers, its the virutual reality of the future. It has low latency 360 degree head tracking(9). Its no interactive room but it does do a good job of making you feel inside the video game. I hope I can play the new halo with it. I don't know I might have nightmaires. If the Oculus Rift didnt do it for ya then there is holographic projection. You cant fully interact with the holograms or touch them but they do make a 3-D image from light(10). Who knows in 10 years we may have interactive 3-D people we could talk and interact with. Think of what this would do for the military. Interactive targets? Besides helping the military, holographic strippers? As long as the beer is not holographic I think I can survive.
Remember that thing doctor McCoy used to put on peoples heads to cure head damage? Well its very similar to a type of surgery called Focused Ultrasound Surgery(2). Focused Ultrasound Surgery is when you use sound waves to heat and destroy fibroid tissue. It is usuallly used inside of an MRI machine. Though it is only used for uterine fibroids it still gives us a good idea of the future(11). How great would it be to have this little device that could do surgery. In my opion its very possible for this technology to someday do surgery with out opening a persons flesh. Brain anyerisms a thing of the past. Who needs to get shocked when you can bring people back to life with a little device on your head? To be possible we just need to wait on computers to cetch up to are needs.
Another technology we are getting closer to everyday is a replicator(4). In star trek a replicator rearanges subatomic cells to form molicures(12). Even though we don't quite have a system that can rerange subatomic cells but we do have 3-D printers. 3-D printers usually use a liquid or powder and is layered thousands of times to bond it together(13). Though it may not work exactly like a replicator, but it does do a good job. 3-D printers are even being worked on to print food. Though not very efficient it could revalutionize the food industry(14). How awesome would it be to have a food printer with voice recinition “computer make me a pizza with pepironi”. I wonder how this food might taste? Do you think it will mix up all the flavors? In any case a 3-D food printer when released on the market will help out a long list of different industries. They even have 3-D printers to print buildings. The process is done with epoxy and sand(15). You may soon see gient printers printing new starbucks in a town near you. The only problem I have with this is that it will put more people out of work rasing the unemplyment rate. Technology has always had a bad habbit of killing job, in my opinion.
So who is sick and tired of taking the bus? How about planes? What if I told you they are working on transporters? No I'm not crazy i'm serious. We can finnaly say beam me up scotty and actually get beamed up. We might one day have beams of light to teleport us from place to place. Tests have been conducted in transportation. Thanks to quontum intanglement Michio Kaku was abile to move protons from one canister to the other. Now it didnt actually transport it in a sense, it made a copy of the proton and deleted the proton from the starting location. Now we are far off from beaming from atlanta to cairo but in a few centuries who knows(3). Now I big question, will the tsa be guarding the transporters? Lets hope not, they are a big enough pain in the butt.
In Star Trek Kirk would always give the command to go to warp. Then sulu would move a few nobs. All of a sudden the ship would be moving. Now in Star Trek the ship is actually never moving. A warp bubble is opened and it moves spacetime around the ship. It constintly expands and contracts. Now this might sound far fetched but some really smart people are working on it at NASA. In his paper "The Warp Drive: Hyper-Fast Travel Within General Relativity," published in 1994, Michio Kaku states his Alcubierre drive takes advantage a quirk in cosmological code expanding and contracting spacetime. Now someone else has slightly modified his perposal. Harold White this is what he said at the 100 Year Starship Project, "My early results suggested I had discovered something that was in the math all along," he recalled. "I suddenly realized that if you made the thickness of the negative vacuum energy ring larger — like shifting from a belt shape to a donut shape — and oscillate the warp bubble, you can greatly reduce the energy required — perhaps making the idea plausible." See before it required to much energy to even be plosable, but with his changes it could be possible(5). Think about it. You board a commercial warp ship and fly to the next solar system for your wedding. The possabilites are endless. Oneday we could have bases on far away planets. Who know we might one day meet aliens and have friends in space (enless its more like independence day).
There are a lot of technologies from Star Trek that have changed the world. Scanners for medical and science, ultra sound surgery. The possibilities are endless we could one day see these technolgies become more refined and closer to that of the Star Trek universe. Star Trek changed the world and will keep on changing the world.
I remember the first time I hurd of Star Trek. I was 5 years old. I was watching Star Wars with my dad and he started telling me about a cheesy TV show that inspired him to build all kinds of contraptions. Being the amazing nerd I was I asked him to watch it with me. Next thing I know i'm hooked. Conversations for the next 10 years consist of, “how would we build a warp drive?”, “do you ever think they will invent transporters?”. For a young kid that got made fun of a lot it was an escape. I even still have a folder full of artiles about the posibility of warp drive. I think most of my morals came from watching that beloved show. Star Trek changed my life and changed the world.
If you have never watch Star Trek I think its time to go to startrek.com and watch some episodes for free. It may just inspire you to do something big and new. Do you think the guy who invented cellphones didnt watch it? From his own words he has admitted this inspired him to design the cell phone. I think we can all say thank you Star Trek for all the things we have acomplished because of you. Now if we could only get a new TV show, that would be lovly.
One technology that has revolutionized medicin and scicence is the hand scanner. Compairable to a Tricorder (6- page to:02:11:00, page to:02:04:00). Scanners such as a hand held scanner for doctors to see infections of the inner ear. The scanner has a 3D view and relies on a technology called OCT that uses light the same way an ultra sound uses sound. The device mesures the time it takes for the light to bounce back to the device. A computer algorithim builds a 3-D picture off of this data(7). Before this they used a light with a magnifyer. I think we all remember the doctor getting the right size attachment and putting it in your ear. Not the funnest thing to deal with in the world. For science we have x-ray fluorescence analyzers. XRF scanners emit X-ray signals at an element. The X-rays emmited read a kind of “fingerprint” that every specific element have. XRF scanners either use small x-ray tubes or a canister of radioactive meterial(8). Wait till these and other technologys are put into one device. We will have a real world tricorder. Think of the posibilities if we could pop out are handy dandy scanner and find out if you friend is dieing because he got shot in a drive by.
You may of thought it was myth but there is something similar to transparent aluminum. Its called aluminum oxynitride, ALON for short. It is made from ceramic dust and presure. Simmilar to the process of making glass it is made into something similar, the only difference it can with stand a bullet. Polishing and molding stranthen it even more. Maybe when scotty gave the formula away it actually made it to modern day? Maybe but we have no proof(3 page 2). I guess we will just have to hope he didnt modify the time line too much. We all know how mad Captain Braxton would be.
Wouldnt it be great to have a room you could just go into and interact with your favorite historical figure? Well we are getting close there are some technologies that make it possible. Technologies like Oculus rift (1). The Oculus Rift is a device that gives you 110 degrees of view. Mostly directed at gamers, its the virutual reality of the future. It has low latency 360 degree head tracking(9). Its no interactive room but it does do a good job of making you feel inside the video game. I hope I can play the new halo with it. I don't know I might have nightmaires. If the Oculus Rift didnt do it for ya then there is holographic projection. You cant fully interact with the holograms or touch them but they do make a 3-D image from light(10). Who knows in 10 years we may have interactive 3-D people we could talk and interact with. Think of what this would do for the military. Interactive targets? Besides helping the military, holographic strippers? As long as the beer is not holographic I think I can survive.
Remember that thing doctor McCoy used to put on peoples heads to cure head damage? Well its very similar to a type of surgery called Focused Ultrasound Surgery(2). Focused Ultrasound Surgery is when you use sound waves to heat and destroy fibroid tissue. It is usuallly used inside of an MRI machine. Though it is only used for uterine fibroids it still gives us a good idea of the future(11). How great would it be to have this little device that could do surgery. In my opion its very possible for this technology to someday do surgery with out opening a persons flesh. Brain anyerisms a thing of the past. Who needs to get shocked when you can bring people back to life with a little device on your head? To be possible we just need to wait on computers to cetch up to are needs.
Another technology we are getting closer to everyday is a replicator(4). In star trek a replicator rearanges subatomic cells to form molicures(12). Even though we don't quite have a system that can rerange subatomic cells but we do have 3-D printers. 3-D printers usually use a liquid or powder and is layered thousands of times to bond it together(13). Though it may not work exactly like a replicator, but it does do a good job. 3-D printers are even being worked on to print food. Though not very efficient it could revalutionize the food industry(14). How awesome would it be to have a food printer with voice recinition “computer make me a pizza with pepironi”. I wonder how this food might taste? Do you think it will mix up all the flavors? In any case a 3-D food printer when released on the market will help out a long list of different industries. They even have 3-D printers to print buildings. The process is done with epoxy and sand(15). You may soon see gient printers printing new starbucks in a town near you. The only problem I have with this is that it will put more people out of work rasing the unemplyment rate. Technology has always had a bad habbit of killing job, in my opinion.
So who is sick and tired of taking the bus? How about planes? What if I told you they are working on transporters? No I'm not crazy i'm serious. We can finnaly say beam me up scotty and actually get beamed up. We might one day have beams of light to teleport us from place to place. Tests have been conducted in transportation. Thanks to quontum intanglement Michio Kaku was abile to move protons from one canister to the other. Now it didnt actually transport it in a sense, it made a copy of the proton and deleted the proton from the starting location. Now we are far off from beaming from atlanta to cairo but in a few centuries who knows(3). Now I big question, will the tsa be guarding the transporters? Lets hope not, they are a big enough pain in the butt.
In Star Trek Kirk would always give the command to go to warp. Then sulu would move a few nobs. All of a sudden the ship would be moving. Now in Star Trek the ship is actually never moving. A warp bubble is opened and it moves spacetime around the ship. It constintly expands and contracts. Now this might sound far fetched but some really smart people are working on it at NASA. In his paper "The Warp Drive: Hyper-Fast Travel Within General Relativity," published in 1994, Michio Kaku states his Alcubierre drive takes advantage a quirk in cosmological code expanding and contracting spacetime. Now someone else has slightly modified his perposal. Harold White this is what he said at the 100 Year Starship Project, "My early results suggested I had discovered something that was in the math all along," he recalled. "I suddenly realized that if you made the thickness of the negative vacuum energy ring larger — like shifting from a belt shape to a donut shape — and oscillate the warp bubble, you can greatly reduce the energy required — perhaps making the idea plausible." See before it required to much energy to even be plosable, but with his changes it could be possible(5). Think about it. You board a commercial warp ship and fly to the next solar system for your wedding. The possabilites are endless. Oneday we could have bases on far away planets. Who know we might one day meet aliens and have friends in space (enless its more like independence day).
There are a lot of technologies from Star Trek that have changed the world. Scanners for medical and science, ultra sound surgery. The possibilities are endless we could one day see these technolgies become more refined and closer to that of the Star Trek universe. Star Trek changed the world and will keep on changing the world.
I remember the first time I hurd of Star Trek. I was 5 years old. I was watching Star Wars with my dad and he started telling me about a cheesy TV show that inspired him to build all kinds of contraptions. Being the amazing nerd I was I asked him to watch it with me. Next thing I know i'm hooked. Conversations for the next 10 years consist of, “how would we build a warp drive?”, “do you ever think they will invent transporters?”. For a young kid that got made fun of a lot it was an escape. I even still have a folder full of artiles about the posibility of warp drive. I think most of my morals came from watching that beloved show. Star Trek changed my life and changed the world.
If you have never watch Star Trek I think its time to go to startrek.com and watch some episodes for free. It may just inspire you to do something big and new. Do you think the guy who invented cellphones didnt watch it? From his own words he has admitted this inspired him to design the cell phone. I think we can all say thank you Star Trek for all the things we have acomplished because of you. Now if we could only get a new TV show, that would be lovly.