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  2. List of existing technologies predicted in science fiction

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    Predicted technology Name(s) in the work Back to the Future and Back to the Future Part II: 1985, 1989 Voice user interface, tablet computer, videotelephony, augmented and virtual reality, flatscreen television, fingerprint scanner [82] Star Trek: The Next Generation: 1987–1994 Smartwatch: Until the End of the World: 1991

  3. Technology in Star Trek - Wikipedia

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    The reference work Star Trek Fact Files indicates this limit at warp factor 9.99. This is the highest conventional warp speed mentioned for a spaceship (Borg cube). Also in the episode Threshold (Star Trek Voyager) the warp factor 9.99 is suggested as the limit. This is the last warp factor mentioned before the leap takes place in the transwarp ...

  4. Holodeck - Wikipedia

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    The Holodeck is a fictional device from the television franchise Star Trek which uses "holograms" (projected light and electromagnetic energy which create the illusion of solid objects) to create a realistic 3D simulation of a real or imaginary setting, in which participants can freely interact with the environment as well as objects and characters, and sometimes a predefined narrative.

  5. 3 Star Trek Tech Inventions You Could See in Your Lifetime - AOL

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  7. Replicator (Star Trek) - Wikipedia

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    One of the most important pieces of technology in the Star Trek universe, the replicator is used primarily to provide food and water on board starships, thus eliminating the need to stock most provisions (though starships, starbases, and other installations still stock some provisions for emergencies, such as in cases of replicator failure or an energy crisis.)

  8. Cloaking device - Wikipedia

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    Since the advent of modern Science fiction, many variations on the theme with proposed basis in reality have been imagined. Star Trek screenwriter Paul Schneider, inspired in part by the 1958 film Run Silent, Run Deep, and in part by The Enemy Below, which had been released in 1957, imagined cloaking as a space-travel analog of a submarine ...

  9. How William Shatner Changed the World - Wikipedia

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    The first hour focuses on the original Star Trek series and the ideas that Gene Roddenberry had about the future of space travel.. It begins with the life of Dr. Marc D. Rayman, the chief propulsion engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and shows how Dr. Rayman became interested in propulsion through Star Trek.