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submitted 5 months ago by ininewcrow@lemmy.ca to c/tenforward@lemmy.world

In The Original Series in the 60s, people had no idea what the future would look like or what technology would look like. In one of the early episodes, they had a paper print out machine on the bridge that looked like a fax machine, which was considered futuristic in the 1960s.

Like the example of the Enterprise fax machine, what technology or system do you think are we displaying in the current Star Trek shows that will show how dated we will become in the future?

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[-] Infynis@midwest.social 12 points 5 months ago

I really doubt flying a spaceship will ever just be sitting in a bucket seat with a screen of touch controls

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

The interior of the Crew Dragon capsule, currently in service:

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

That looks like some wealthy teenager's basement gaming room for their friends

[-] riskable@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago

Yeah: It'll be your brain in a jar (or just stored digitally) and you'll just get a new body 3D printed when you arrive at your destination... After landing.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

You go ahead. I'll keep my brain inside my body, thank you.

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 13 points 5 months ago

But it might enjoy the peace and quiet of a tank!

[-] kaitco@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Considering how often it fucked up, I'd say she and McCoy were right on about the transporter.

[-] bizarroland@fedia.io 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Okay, but what if somebody offers to non-invasively copy your brain and send that copy out into the cosmos to one day 40,000 years from now land on another habitable planet?

What if they're going to send out 10 copies? In 10 different directions? Sure, you may pass away, and the spark that makes you unique in all of the history of the universe may receede with the ocean tides of time, but if you had the option to be partially temporarily more than mortal would you take it?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago
[-] riskable@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

...says the copy.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

This is where I'm hung up on this too. I'm not against cloning my grey matter for, well, whatever purposes provided they're ethical. But that's hardly immortality for this individual typing right now.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I agree. It's basically a way of having children with yourself. It's not you even if it has the same genetic material as you for the same reason identical twins are not one person.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

What if in 40,000 years after a long development, knowledge acquisition, evolution and so much lost time that those same brains decide to return to their origins and come back together and battle one another for supremacy over all the others to become the single and only .... ONE

[-] bizarroland@fedia.io 2 points 5 months ago

The Highlander series is finished and does not need a reboot thank you very much

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