{"id":159828,"date":"2023-03-08T09:28:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/how-star-trek-inspired-modern-tech-smart-phones-touch-panels-vr"},"modified":"2023-03-08T09:28:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:28:39","slug":"how-star-trek-inspired-modern-tech-smart-phones-touch-panels-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/how-star-trek-inspired-modern-tech-smart-phones-touch-panels-vr","title":{"rendered":"How Star Trek inspired modern tech\u2014smart phones, touch panels, VR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-star-trek-inspired-modern-tech-smart-phones-touch-panels-vr2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The most famous one is the cell phone itself: Captain Kirk\u2019s communicator inspired the folks at Motorola to make the first handheld mobile device in 1973. <em>Star Trek: <\/em><em>The <\/em><em>O<\/em><em>riginal <\/em><em>S<\/em><em>eries <\/em>(popularly called <em>TOS<\/em>) from the 1960s also inspired video conferencing. But things started to amp up when, in 1987, <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> (aka <em>TNG<\/em>) hit the floors, with Sir Patrick Stewart in the lead. It became one of the most syndicated shows on television\u2014which is how I discovered it in mid-90s India on the Star network. It fundamentally impacted my life, inspiring me to become the technology writer I am today.<\/p>\n<p>But more than me, this show heralded more technological concepts that are becoming increasingly real. The LCARS computer on the Galaxy-Class USS Enterprise D is basically the foundation of what Google is today. Google\u2019s former head of search, Amit Singhal, often said that the company is \u201ctrying to build the <em>Star Trek<\/em> computer\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most famous one is the cell phone itself: Captain Kirk\u2019s communicator inspired the folks at Motorola to make the first handheld mobile device in 1973. Star Trek: The Original Series (popularly called TOS) from the 1960s also inspired video conferencing. But things started to amp up when, in 1987, Star Trek: The Next Generation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,33,1512,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cosmology","category-mobile-phones","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}