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By Hector Cisneros
No TV series or
motion picture has captured the imagination of the world like Star Trek. Yes,
many love this program's biggest rival
Star Wars, but it was Star Trek that launched our imagination straight into the
future. With the launch of the new movie Star Trek Beyond, and the upcoming new
TV series Star Trek Discovery, coming up in January 2017, we thought it would
be worthwhile reviewing many of the new inventions
that have sprung to life based on the
Star Trek phenomena. A new and exciting era has been given birth by this
series, so read on, and prepare yourself to go Beyond the normal confines of
our science as we explore Star Trek Teck in the 21st century.
Being a baby Boomer
and having grown up watching Star Trek, it amazes me to see all the advancement
we have made as a species. Think about it, we have gone from horse and buggy to
landing men and probes on distant planets. We have a space station that houses
a multi-nation crew and we have connected the entire planet via the internet.
The last 50 years alone have driven us to create Star Trek technologies first shown on the TV series. This is such a
fantastic achievement that many conspiracy theorists believe we have had
extraterrestrial help getting here.
Ancient Aliens Gave it to Us?
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For example, a recent
History Channel show about Ancient Aliens (season 11 episode 9)
suggest that we were given this technology by the aliens Thor, who landed in
the US in the 1940’s, and met with the heads of our government. According to
this History Channel show, Gene Roddenberry was one of the people at that meeting who
learned about advanced technologies. Later, he then used his books followed by
the creation of the show Star Trek, to inform and prepare us, for what would one day be a future with
fantastic technologies and alien races. The History Channel’s Ancient Aliens
show stated that the creation of Star Trek TV series was a way of preparing our
population to get ready for a universe full of other alien species. It’s
interesting to me that this show is on the History Channel in the first place,
especially since the history channel is supposed to be about “History”, but I
digress.
In previous articles, we have discussed many Start Trek
technologies that have come to life. The widespread use of computers, Artificial
Intelligence, androids and robots, wearable computers, smartphones, global
communication’s, GPS, Holographic technology, virtual reality, the internet of things,
3D printers (as an early form of Replicators), beam weapons, cybernetic
implants, remote telemedicine, Artificial Intelligence doctors, replaceable
body parts, exoskeletons, sensory enhancement and of course planetary travel in
space ships. The following list of articles provides more detail and links to
those blogs.
List of previous articles on Star Trek tech
we have written in the past
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- Praise the Borg and Pass the Ammunition
- More Star Trek tech
- A Borg in every Boardroom Cyber Augmentation for all
- Birth of Bionic Man
- To Moon Alice
- Wearables 2.0 Rise of Trackers
- The Basics of Biohacking
- The Robots Are Coming, Are You Ready
- Are you Prepared for Technological Extinction
- Do Smartphones Dream About Facebook?
Phasors
- (AKA DEW’s)
The creation of directed energy weapons
(DEW) is not new. Phasor type weapons, as they were called in Star
Trek are now real and come in many flavors. The creation of microwave beam, an x-ray, laser beams, plasma and particle beam
weapons are all real. Although we had mentioned lasers of various kinds in the
past. The US government now has operational DEW beam and high energy particle
weapons in their arsenal. These include X-ray beams, various high energy lasers,
particle beam weapons and pulse projectile weapons.
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A new weapon on
the scene is sound amplification and
concentration weapons (disruptor beams), that many of the Federation’s enemy
used in Star Trek battles. Although these new weapons are not anywhere near as
powerful as the ones depicted in the TV series, they can be used to disable and disorient soldiers, shoot down
missiles and damage/destroy satellites in space, and yes they could destroy one
of our spacecraft if shot at one.
Tricorder to The Rescue
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We have
mentioned in previous article that
scientists are working on creating a tricorder type of device. In fact, two years
ago I personally checked out a medical device that was designed to check the health
conditions of large, dangerous animals like Lions while they were still in
their cages (and the doctor safe outside the bars). This prototype device I
witnessed could read your pulse, heart rate, breathing
rate and temperature from about 8 feet away. Since
then, Qualcomm has announced an XPRIZE competition with 10 million dollars in prize
money for the first company to develop a tricorder device. Even more recently,
an article in CNN talked about a product called the Scanadu Scout, is professed
to provide a real-time medical
information. The article says, “Through its sensor, and in a matter of seconds, the
Scanadu measures heart rate, temperature, blood pressure, oxygen level and
provides a complete ECG reading.” It
looks like we are getting real close to a fully functional tricorder in my lifetime.
Invisibility Cloaking
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One of the
coolest technologies that only the enemies of The Federation had, were cloaking
devices. The cloaking device made spaceships
invisible. We have developed technologies that make
aircraft and ships invisible to radar by using radar absorbing
materials on the structure of these transportation machines. However, cloaking
from visible light and the other spectra of light has been elusive until
now. Several new technologies under
development can hide the visible light spectrum, sound and more. In a recent
headline in Digital Trends online reads, “New invisibility cloak device can hide
almost anything”. The article goes on to say, “The Rochester Cloak’, as it’s been dubbed,
uses a simplified four-lens system that essentially bends light around any
objects you put into the middle of the chain — you’re able to see the area in
the background as normal, but not the item in the foreground. According to its
inventors, it can be scaled up using any size of lens, and the team responsible for the setup has used standard,
off-the-shelf hardware.” This is an amazing device and shows how Star Trek
Tech is driving our reality.
Artificial Intelligence and Talking Computers
Artificial Intelligence and Talking Computers
We have mentioned
artificial intelligence back in 2013 in our article, “When Will Computers
Out Think You?”
And we have covered the latest A.I. entries like Siri, Google Now, Amazon Echo,
Cortana, Googles Rank Brain and Dr. Watson in other
articles like “Do Smartphones Dream About Facebook?”
and in our article, “Google is Playing Musical Chairs with
Ranking and it Will cost Us Billions”. Today early forms of A.I. are
in widespread use by the public when they use their smartphones,
tablets, computers and even their TV remote controls (Xfinity Remote control).
I just hope we stay on the path to developing
beneficial intelligence, (versus the
search for artificial intelligence which we may not be able to control).
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Khan - The birth of Genetic enhancements
One of the most
loved of the Star Trek TV shows later spawned movies called “The Wrath of
Khan”, the story of
the Star Trek crew finding genetically enhanced humans from the past that had
superior strength, intelligence, and immunity, that were later left on a planet
that almost killed them. The story plot explores their attempt for revenge. This
movie was recently remade into the new version called “Into the Darkness” with the
rebirth of the popular Movie series.
Today genetic testing, enhancements, and even cloning are real. A
tremendous amount of money has been spent on mapping the human genome, and with
it, come the understanding of many of the things that make us human. It also brings
the possibility of upgrades to enhanced humans. A new genetic technology called “CRISPR-Cas 9” will allow
scientist to splice genes in ways we haven’t even thought of yet. We have gene
therapies already in place and it’s just a matter of time before these
technologies are used to enhance our strength, longevity, immunity and more.
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SubSpace Communications
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In Star Trek,
the captain of the ship could communicate with Star Fleet headquarters, other
ships and far-flung planets with ease,
even though these entities were dozen if not hundreds of light years away.
Today, a one-way call to one of our space probes on Mar’s would take 20 minutes
to reach the probe. It would also take another 20 minutes for the Probes
response to reach us back. Enter Quantum Entanglement. This
theory, as listed in Wikipedia, basically states that two particles can be
intimately linked to each other even if separated by billions of light-years of
space. In other words, a change in one particle will induce the same effect on the
other particle, even if they are separated by great distances. Star Treks SubSpace communication is supposed to be based on this concept.
Until recently, Quantum
Entanglement was only a theory, but recent research has lent credence to
this theory becoming a fact. An article entitled, “Quantum Entanglement: Love on a Subatomic
Scale”, states that “Last year, however, three
different research groups were able to perform substantive tests of Bell's
Theorem, and all of them found support for the basic idea.” If this breakthrough is
real, we will be able to devise a way to communicate over long distances with
little or no time passing. Now that would make the invention of the internet
seem like a small stepping stone, to this new communications superhighway.
The Birth of Transparent Aluminium
In the Star
Trek movie “the Voyage Home”, Scotty the chief engineer gave the secret to
manufacturing transparent aluminium to a plant manager in the earth’s past. This was done so that the crew
could equip their space ship with water tanks big enough to bring humpback whales back from the past, in order to
save the earth in the future from a pending disaster. Well, guess what? Transparent
Aluminium is now a reality! Aluminum Ox nitride is now being
manufactured and marketed by Surmet Corporation under the name AION. Even though it is
expensive, this product is already in widespread
use in smartphones and other applications where a hard transparent material is
needed.
Here is a description of its properties taken from the
Wikipedia on Aluminium Oxynitride. “AlON is optically transparent (≥80%) in the
near-ultraviolet, visible and midwave-infrared
regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. It is 4 times harder than fused silica glass, 85% as hard as sapphire, and nearly 15% harder than magnesium
aluminate spinel. Since
it has a cubic spinel structure, it can be fabricated to transparent windows,
plates, domes, rods, tubes and other forms using conventional ceramic powder
processing techniques. AlON is the hardest polycrystalline transparent ceramic
available commercially.[2]Combination
of optical and mechanical properties makes this material a leading candidate
for lightweight high-performance transparent armor applications such as bulletproof and blast-resistant windows and for many military infrared
optics. AlON-based armor has been shown to stop multiple armor-piercing
projectiles of up to 50 cal.[4] It
is commercially available in sizes as big as 18x35-inch monolithic windows.[5]”
It is obvious that the human races fascination and love of all things Star Trek is growing even
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That’s my opinion, I look forward to reading yours.
In this article, I have discussed many of the latest Star Trek technologies that now exist. I have also mentioned many of the previous articles we have published on this subject and provided links to them so that the reader can explore all the Star Trek tech that is now available for our use.
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