Yeah that's a pretty blanket statement, although the day-to-day life aspect helps a lot.

Yeah, I agree with that. Star Trek did invent some iconic tech, but they were always more aspirational in the sense of "this is what we'd like society to be" instead of showing how the day-to-day life of average families would actually work.

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isjdjsjdisjd 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Star Trek is “aspirational” but not in the way that you’re making it to be. Plenty of devices that are common to us today were pretty much “predicted” by Star Trek in way or another (PADDs, Tricorders, to name a couple). And yes, while it is almost always depicted in a productivity/workplace sense, these devices are all integral to the function of a Federation starship as much as their real-life counterparts are also very much integral to people’s day-to-day lives today.

The author’s claim is ridiculously short-sighted not only for discounting Star Trek, but plenty of other shows and movies with visionary concepts that eventually came to be.

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siriusastrebe 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I did not expect it so soon, but generative AI has the potential to become the holodeck: where you can tell the computer what kind of fictional adventure you'd like to experience in virtual reality, and it would bring it to life.

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raw_anon_1111 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What’s really funny is they avoided futuristic AI computers in Star Trek Enterprise - a prequel to the original Star Trek series - to show that computers hadn’t advanced that far. Even though we have that technology today.

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throw20251220 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The point isn’t about the tech, there’s a different balance of tech vs society in Star Trek and The Jetsons. You see, in Star Trek only a selected group travel far and beyond. The rest sits on this planet. You don’t watch Kirk speaking to his robot cleaner, sending kids to school, and flying shopping.

> As Graydon points out, “The Jetsons” was a projection of the model American family into the future.

This is a completely different setting than Star Trek Fleet Command thing.

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