In The Original Series in the 60s, people had no idea what the future would look like or what technology would look like. In one of the early episodes, they had a paper print out machine on the bridge that looked like a fax machine, which was considered futuristic in the 1960s.

Like the example of the Enterprise fax machine, what technology or system do you think are we displaying in the current Star Trek shows that will show how dated we will become in the future?

  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    This is where I’m hung up on this too. I’m not against cloning my grey matter for, well, whatever purposes provided they’re ethical. But that’s hardly immortality for this individual typing right now.

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      4 months ago

      I agree. It’s basically a way of having children with yourself. It’s not you even if it has the same genetic material as you for the same reason identical twins are not one person.