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<blockquote data-quote="spiney" data-source="post: 210151" data-attributes="member: 192438"><p>Hmmm ..... saw "How William Shatner (ie, Star Trek) Changed The World" prog on CH 5 a few days ago.</p><p></p><p>It was trying to claim that some real-world "gadgets" only got invented after first being seen on Star Trek. Nice idea - made an entertaining TV prog - but entirely false!</p><p></p><p>Things like cellular phones (for example) only got invented when they did, because the required technology had by then progressed sufficiently to allow them to exist. Otherwise, many common "gadgets" would have appeared much sooner.</p><p></p><p>(Dick Tracey had a wrist radio long before Star Trek: <a href="http://davidszondy.com/future/Living/wrist_radio.htm" target="_blank">http://davidszondy.com/future/Living/wrist_radio.htm</a> )</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spiney, post: 210151, member: 192438"] Hmmm ..... saw "How William Shatner (ie, Star Trek) Changed The World" prog on CH 5 a few days ago. It was trying to claim that some real-world "gadgets" only got invented after first being seen on Star Trek. Nice idea - made an entertaining TV prog - but entirely false! Things like cellular phones (for example) only got invented when they did, because the required technology had by then progressed sufficiently to allow them to exist. Otherwise, many common "gadgets" would have appeared much sooner. (Dick Tracey had a wrist radio long before Star Trek: [URL="http://davidszondy.com/future/Living/wrist_radio.htm"]http://davidszondy.com/future/Living/wrist_radio.htm[/URL] ) [/QUOTE]
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