Landguy said:
deskpro2k3 said:
Another step closer to Star Trek. |
I just watched an episode of Star Trek Voyager a couple of weeks ago. We are pretty close to most of the "computer" type tech now. We talk to our computers, we use touch screens, most of our systems can be automated. Sure, we don't make our lunch out of thin air, but that isn't my point either. Heck, after watching Star Trek Beyond in theatres a few weeks ago, hollywood is having a hard time making the future look high tech or "futuristic" as far as computers go.
Besides a replicator, the only tech in Star Trek that would be really useful for everyday life would be a transporter.
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One thing that we are miles ahead of Trek in terms of tech is simply the size of our current PCs and supercomputers when you consider the size of the Enterprise D computer core is
If you see it in the middle of the saucer section (you'll need to right click and view image) but it's the huge portion of the centre of the saucer also near engineering Deck 38 is effectively another whole deck filled with secondary computer core for use during seperation. Keeping in mind that the storage capacity of the enterprise D was never set down in writing but Data at a point stored all of the Computers data in his own positronic net (brain) along with his own memory and Data has a canonically confirmed storage capacity of around 100Petabytes of Data ... eeerrr... information!
So yeah I think given that TnG is based in 2364 I think the fact that the central core of the Ship for storing less than 100,000 Terabyte drives would actually be far smaller if you were to use todays tech of HDDs. (not in the case of Data though, how he fits that amount of storage in his head is... interesting, but that is Noonian Soongs magic there.)
