We are living in the future

[beccaelizabeth]

I keep watching Next Gen and having to remind myself that when they were filming this all these technologies didn't exist. The data pads, the digital photo frames, probably even the little laptop shaped desktop thingies to some degree. They were made up non working wild ideas from The Future.

... I could buy better, lighter, brighter, workier versions of all of them from the supermarket.

I'm still waiting on my tricorder, but for all the rest? We are so living in the future.

Comments

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

I think my favorite one is from TOS, and that communicators are clunkier versions of cell phones. ( And that maybe, the style of flip phones was a Trek. )

[beccaelizabeth]

yes, it's so practical and so SF.
only now you watch their communicators and have to remember they're using super special outer space signal boosters cause they don't have outer space cell phone towers, cause otherwise they look so huge.