Star Trek

The Star Trek movies not only showed handheld communication devices but also provided a glimpse of 3D printers and computer speech recognition. Adding to those devices, the first wearable technology such as Google Glass, Oculus Rift and smartwatches were portrayed…

Randy Pausch, a professor of computer science and Virtual Reality creation at CMU, creatively delivers his speech titled, “The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.” He speaks to the audience in a very informal manner, making himself more approachable and easy to listen to. He introduces his three main speech topics in the beginning, His Childhood Dreams, Enabling the Dreams of Others, and Lessons Learned. His first main point, His Childhood Dreams, is one where he looks back…

odd sightings, fear, illness, and eventually violence and suicide leave the protagonist, Karl Heinrich, all by himself on a doomed ocean voyage. Ultimately he leaves his ship and dies while exploring what he believes to be Atlantis. An episode of Star Trek: Voyager titled “Bliss” also deals with theme of a descent into madness. This science fiction 1990’s television show features the starship Voyager’s journey back to Earth, after being flung 70,000 light years away from Earth. Along the way,…

Quantum Teleportation Speech The idea of quantum teleportation is not new. It is an idea used as a plot device in many science fiction novels and shows, the most famous of which is Star Trek. It is an idea that has been discussed within the scientific community, and it has actually experimentally occurred a few times already. However, the difference must be made between quantum teleportation and plain old teleportation. We’ll be discussing teleportation at the quantum level. Plain old…

I was lucky to grow up in a predominantly screen-free environment. Watching television was a deliberate activity, not a default. I was not reliant upon external stimuli and I rarely experienced boredom or a lack of creativity. Living in the country, I had the space and freedom to explore in nature and to live an active lifestyle. I had the privilege of experiencing childhood and play as it was “in the good ol’ days” before Western culture developed a screen dependency. The benefits of growing…

“Beam Me Up, Scotty!” - Star Trek Technology in Healthcare Imagine being on the U.S.S. Starship Enterprise and a medical emergency occurs. How do you contact medical personnel in sick bay? Anyone who has watched the “Star Trek: The Next Generation” television series will tell you communication between crewmembers is a simple matter of using the communicator attached to your uniform. Forty years ago this technology was futuristic. In today’s hospitals, this technology is now a reality.…

While the third installment of the reboot series enjoyed a solid $59.2 million opening last weekend, Star Trek Beyond dipped significantly in its second weekend on the market, suffering a 60% collapse. Regardless, Star Trek Beyond has now grossed $160.5 million, worldwide ($105.7 million, domestic) – and has a fourth installment on the way. The new comedy, Bad Moms, debuts in third place – earning $23.4 million…

not exist. To this day, as artificial intelligence become increasingly common, and the question of how the mind relates to the body or if it even exists becomes pertinent in relation to technology, no consensus exists. Science fiction, such as the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Measure of a Man”, often attempts to tackle this problem through their stories. The leaders of the two opposed parties, Picard and Maddox, both exhibit different views to the problem of mind/body. Picard…

Recently we watched in class The Measure of Man from the tv series Star Trek: The next Generation. From this one episode a lot of questions have arisen about the legality of cyborgs in the future. In the case of this episode it is over the android Data and whether or not he has human rights or is just a piece of machinery. At first it seems as if the writer wants to show the Data does not exhbit all the qualties needed to have to make himself human. This is evident by the poker scene at the…

years and can be purchased today from just €230. The incredibly innovative sensation that is 3D printing is seen to be completely ahead of its time and to have come out of nowhere. In the 1980s and 1990s however, viewers of the television series “Star Trek: The Next Generation” regularly saw Patrick Stewart procure hot tea from a “replicator,” which generated his tea — cup and all — instantly on demand. Even then, such technology…