Science fiction technology that you can buy today
One of the amazing things about science fiction on TV and on films is that there’s lots of the technology which you can buy in the shops today.
OK, it’s going to be a while before you can nip out and buy something that will let you travel in time but, surprisingly, it’s something that should be available some day in that it’s not impossible going by present day theories and, of course, anything that isn’t impossible will surely be available someday.
However, if you consider the original Star Trek series every single item can be bought today with just two exceptions. We have a primitive version of the communicators (the Enterprise wasn’t tied to using transmitter poles!). The original version of the notepad was available in the late 1980s and is actually obselete having been replaced by present-day PDAs after a gap of 10 years or so. Talking computers were available in the early 1980s and are now commonplace (although strangely more primitive than those available 20 years ago!).
The exceptions? Well, warp drive is, in principle, possible but isn’t on sale just yet.
It’s the transporter that’s the one you’ll not be able to buy anytime soon as nobody has, so far, worked out even a theoretical way that such a thing would work.
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