One of the neat things about remembering those days juxtaposed with today is recalling how much of the tech we saw on TOS has been realized since in some form or other.
I recall some seven years ago seeing the first mass market big LCD and plasma TV's and thinking, "Wow! It's the Enterprise viewscreen. Or medical monitoring equipment. Or more recently seeing brightly coloured USB travel drives shaped in a square wafer that looked near exactly like the TOS microtapes.
And in "Requiem For Methuselah" Flint had a desktop like viewer that has some resemblance to the very thin flatscreen monitors that are being introduced.
I recall some seven years ago seeing the first mass market big LCD and plasma TV's and thinking, "Wow! It's the Enterprise viewscreen. Or medical monitoring equipment. Or more recently seeing brightly coloured USB travel drives shaped in a square wafer that looked near exactly like the TOS microtapes.
And in "Requiem For Methuselah" Flint had a desktop like viewer that has some resemblance to the very thin flatscreen monitors that are being introduced.
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