Which Sci-fi future will we reach?

[Deckerd]

It doesn't matter in which direction our technology goes, life will imitate art.

There will always be a ship named Enterprise.

Is your second sentence in any way connected to your first? Or are they randomly juxtaposed?

 

[keekwai]

I think he means that the Space Shuttle "Enterprise" was named after a fictional science fiction ship. Fiction being a form of art.

 

[SG-17]

It doesn't matter in which direction our technology goes, life will imitate art.

There will always be a ship named Enterprise.

Is your second sentence in any way connected to your first? Or are they randomly juxtaposed?

It is meant to support my previous statement.

I think he means that the Space Shuttle "Enterprise" was named after a fictional science fiction ship. Fiction being a form of art.

Indeed. Virgin Galactic also has a ship named Enterprise.

 

[scotpens]

^ And there were many real-life vessels named Enterprise before Star Trek. Chicken, egg, chicken, egg . . .

 

[SG-17]

Indeed, however both the Space Shuttle Enterprise and the Virgin Galactic Enterprise were named after NCC-1701, not after the line of Navy ships. So it is a kind of role reversal.

 

[FalTorPan]

We will bow to our robotic overlords.

 

[keekwai]

^ Like this one? ..

 

[FalTorPan]

I was thinking more along the lines of this.

 

[keekwai]

^ Terrifying!