What Star Trek science fiction has come true?

Answer 1

There are a few things that are "close" but not exact (yet):

Today, we know how to create microchip circuits and experimental nanometer-scale objects by "drawing" them on a surface with a beam of atoms. We can also suspend single atoms or small numbers of atoms within a trap made of electromagnetic fields, and experiment on them. That's as close as the replicator is to reality. Making solid matter from a pattern as the replicator appears to do, is pretty far beyond present physics.

People talk to each other on wireless communicators called cell phones. They have instant access to infinite amounts of information on the Internet. And they can spend hours staring at a big wall-mounted plasma or liquid- crystal display TV watching reruns of "Star Trek." That is, if they can afford one.

Medical tech is also there: rather than undergo exploratory surgery, many patients now rest on tables similar to the Enterprise's sickbay bed while an automated scanner delivers diagnostic images of the body's interior. Blade-free "surgery'' is possible with equipment like the CyberKnife, developed at Stanford University. And devices like McCoy's needle-free "hypospray'' injections are now commonplace vaccination tools.

Answer 2

I like the original Star Trek, hate the multitudes of spin offs. I loved the movie Stargate, can't stand all the sappy series that followed. Star Wars was so great when it came out (and I was there for the first theatre runs) and then it became movie after movie until they were no longer fun. Battlestar Galactica sucks, The Dresden Files was boss. It really just depends. I guess what gets old is the lack of originality present in most of today's movies and series, the majority of them are just thin copies of what has been done before. BTW--Dragon BallZ is not a cartoon it is anime.

Answer 3

The only clear, unambiguous example I know of is ion propulsion, which was used for the first time in the European Space Agency's SMART probe which recently performed a controlled crash landing on the Moon.

Answer 4

One that pops into mind might be the push to talk cell phones. Works kind of like the communicators. You could say they are a form of walkie-talkie........but i think the cell phone technology is far more advanced than walkie-talkie.

Answer 5

you got it in the vise versa the star trek was first then they made a fanatsy about it to cover it up.

Answer 6

cell phones, iPods, computers, medicine and surgery with lasers, microchip, software, robotics, the internet

Answer 7

none i hope, a world where star trek is real would really suck , almost as much as star wars sucks.

Answer 8

teleportation