One thing ST looks to have actually got right about the future...

[Squiggy]

I wish voice recognition would get better, typing needs to fade away.

We already have voice recognition. They're called secretaries.

Voice recognition doesn't get mad if you forget Secretaries' Day.

What day?

 

[trekkiedane]

I've actually seen moving ads on the sides of trucks in my area already.

Just yesterday I (re-)watched Children of Men; do take a look at this video to see some of the ads shown throughout the film, notice the ads on the side of the buses and some vans:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VnIrXmdYhY[/yt]​

 

[FreddyE]

As soon as OLEDs get cheap enough quite a few adds in magazines will be animated I read that somewhere.

 

[StarryEyed]

Star Trek actually did not get it right. They could have done LCARS in the original series almost as easily as they did the Chiclet buttons and meaningless blinking lights. LCARS was just backlit panels. They just didn't think in those terms in the 60s.

TNG didn't get it right either. It wasn't too hard to imagine LCARS in the late 80s. Graphic user operating systems were already reality. LCARS is a realistic interface for right now! Not so much for the 24th Century. There wouldn't be any visual interfaces there at all. Neural implants would allow people to link their minds directly to the ship and each other - assuming people have not evolved into starships (or Transformer-like beings) themselves.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Neural implants would allow people to link their minds directly to the ship and each other - assuming people have not evolved into starships (or Transformer-like beings) themselves.

We already saw that. They were called Borg.

 

[StarryEyed]

Neural implants would allow people to link their minds directly to the ship and each other - assuming people have not evolved into starships (or Transformer-like beings) themselves.

We already saw that. They were called Borg.

Yeah, but that is what is realistic about our future, IMO. Maybe not the assimilation or amoral part but the tech. We are not going to remain the same beings we are now as we build ever more capable machines. We are going to improve ourselves in ways we may not be able of imagining now. Some people may not be comfortable with that but I think it's far more realistic than the Trek future.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Some people may not be comfortable with that but I think it's far more realistic than the Trek future.

That's realism that I could do without.

 

[StarryEyed]

Some people may not be comfortable with that but I think it's far more realistic than the Trek future.

That's realism that I could do without.

Do without it then. Perhaps you would be more comfortable with the sports page than a thread on on a sci-fi BBS about speculations concerning the future.

 

[FreddyE]

Some people may not be comfortable with that but I think it's far more realistic than the Trek future.

That's realism that I could do without.

Do without it then. Perhaps you would be more comfortable with the sports page than a thread on on a sci-fi BBS about speculations concerning the future.

Cool it okay? No need to start bitching.

 

[T'Girl]

Spock giving verbal instruction to the ship's computer. My niece was composing an e-mail today, with a earpiece, walking around the room. Still kind of blows my mind that I can ask my car navigation where the cheapest gas station is along my route.

 

[O'Dib]

Neural implants would allow people to link their minds directly to the ship and each other - assuming people have not evolved into starships (or Transformer-like beings) themselves.

I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want, I want to smell dark matter!

Seriously though "act like you're pushing buttons.. in your head!" probably doesn't translate to the screen too well.