10 Times STAR TREK Predicted Technology of the Future

Today we are looking at 10 things that Star Trek predicted would become reality in the future. Some things on this list may surprise you. Its hard to imagine what the world would be like today if Star Trek hadn't existed. So many scientists and, well, people smarter than me have been inspired by things from Star Trek when creating devices and technology that we use today.

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[coomtothebroom]

Hey there, Federation Outpost 1-11, I’m here from one of your other channels. Your Star Trek content is excellent and as good as all the other work you put on YouTube.

Every time I see someone talking to Siri or Alexa I get such a giddy thrill that Star Trek tech made it to real life. Gotta love the power of this show. 😄

Live long and prosper, fellow Trekkies! 🖖

[karlc]

Kirk's flip communicator became Paris Hilton's clamshell mobile circa aughts.

[FantasySci]

Came here from your lotr channel, love this! Subscribed! Oh, and Nog has the best character arc!

[sinsofmemphisto]

I've heard the automatic doors were inspired by star trek thing a lot and I'm shocked that people still say it because it isn't just wrong, it's absurd. At the time TOS was on NBC when I was a kid, the local Kroger store in my neighborhood had automatic doors. They were activated by a pressure plate under the welcome mat in front of them. This is what happens when you just crib from other Star Trek post rather than doing the first bit of independent research. Ask anybody that was alive when the show was on. Automatic doors weren't science fiction even at the time. You might as well say that small video monitors were inspired by ST. Then I'd have to tell you about the 12" TV I watched it on back then,

[donovandelaney]

Our technology looks nothing like those and that’s a shame. I’d love to see tablets that look like Zenon’s Zap Pads!

[windsonma]

I wonder how much longer do we need to wait for a Real Lifeisk Version of a Medical Hypo Spray? In our life time I hope? Because Medical Needles are so out dated especially with…….well you know? In Recent Years.

[davidsandy]

A better analogy to the holodeck is the CAVE. Computer Augmented Virtual Environment. It is a room with projectors on the walls and floor, allowing one to step into a computer simulated 3D environment. Still, something of a toy, in my opinion, it allows a customer to see the interior of an aircraft cabin as if it were real and walk about looking at the various features presented. We could even use the customer colors and logos where appropriate. I have also use it to show mechanics their perspective when working on elevated platforms. It was real enough to make them feel as if they were many feet above the ground. In my view it is still a toy but a cool one to be sure. There are even better systems in the works but have not been commercialized including being able to touch and feel a computer-generated image. That is still a few years away but exists experimentally today.

[WCLCooke]

I hope the transporter becomes real. Imagine the implications it could create. It could illuminate traffic.

[shauntbarry]

Would have thought Transparent Aluminium would have been on the

[bartobo]

I’m afraid that “2001: A Space Odyssey” beat Star Trek on predicting personal data devices such as iPads.

[anthonydavies]

What technology from Star trek would u like to see next them make???

[GoranXII]

10: People have been working towards touch-screens since 1946.
9: A lot of stuff tricorders do is effectively magic. And a number of the things that aren't have been in development since before _Star Trek_ .
8: This is high-tech headset. This was going to happen with or without _Star Trek_ .
7: Another of those things that was going to happen with or without _Star Trek_ .
6: Magnetic disk drives have been around since 1954.
5: Morton Heilig made one of the first attempts at virtual reality (with his _Sensorama_ ) back in 1962.
4: Self-operating doors were first theorised in _Roman_ times (specifically, the automatic doors designed by Hero/Heron of Alexandria). Automatic ones were then theorised by H. G. Wells.
3: I'm not sure what the _Star Trek_ stuff has to do with GPS. And no, GPS has been in the works since the late 50s.
2: Another of those 'it was going to happen' things.
1: A development of the radio. And at least _Forbidden Planet_ (1956) had the good sense to include cameras in theirs.

In conclusion, Star Trek predicted nothing that wasn't either already in the works, or pretty much certain to happen regardless.

[ryanjones]

Has anyone ever told you that you sound just like the guy from the 6th ranger?

[jonathansoko]

i discount you... why? You made a critical error. You counted discovery as actual star trek, it isnt.

[ChrisBrown-pusm]

Your incredible, thank you for pointing out what I only assumed but didn't really know. Yes the original Star Trek had many things we've been using since the 80's. Technology is remarkable.

[Momcat_maggiefelinefan]

People who scoff at sci-fi fans have no idea how much what was fiction then is our reality now. Back off we sci-fi fans as just nerds! We’re inventors who watched, thought and created! 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦

[quaylehak]

Star Trek Deep Space Nine might be predicting the future, but we won't know that for another 2 months. If you want to know what I am talking about, watch Star Trek Deep Space Nine season 3 episodes 11 and 12.

[JamesR]

The PADD inspiration was even closer than this video says.
It's said that Steve Jobs chose the name "iPad" because it was directly inspired by Star Trek's "P.A.D.D"s. In fact, given Apple's naming scheme going back to 2001, we can conclude that the name "iPad" is actually an acryonym: The "internet Personal Acess Display(/Device)", which was, indeed, exactly how Steve presented it as in 2010.

[EricPham-grpg]

Crystal Ball with 3 lights from 3 axis can be program so it translate language to up to 360 difference language all need is sliding to language in active or all at the same time but need listening hood up at 360 degree around cicle

[rogerstalder]

Real life Physics inspired the creators of Star Trek, and now Sci-Fi inspires the real world with Technology. Circle of Life 🤣
But how can they predict the future, if future was inspired by them? that makes no sense. We just forced those things. Where technology actualy should have gone other routes, we now wasted resources to become Tablets and Handys... Im sure without this Series we would have invented an even better Technology this days. Handys and Tablets isnt a good invention tho. Since they are invented humans knowladge has drasticly decreased. Technology should make us better, and not weaker.. dont you think the same?