{"id":2327,"date":"2004-03-16T02:33:57","date_gmt":"2004-03-16T18:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/16\/yesterdays-trek-todays-tech\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:55:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:55:31","slug":"yesterdays-trek-todays-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/16\/yesterdays-trek-todays-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday&#8217;s Trek, today&#8217;s tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11497,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/sfgate.com\\\/cgi-bin\\\/article.cgi?f=\\\/c\\\/a\\\/2004\\\/03\\\/15\\\/BUGO35EG1T83.DTL&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20120515201215\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.sfgate.com\\\/cgi-bin\\\/article.cgi?f=\\\/c\\\/a\\\/2004\\\/03\\\/15\\\/BUGO35EG1T83.DTL&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 17:04:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 01:53:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 01:53:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11498,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/jacquelinepassey.blogs.com\\\/blog\\\/2004\\\/03\\\/im_not_the_only.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20041019025306\\\/http:\\\/\\\/jacquelinepassey.blogs.com:80\\\/blog\\\/2004\\\/03\\\/im_not_the_only.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 17:04:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 01:53:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 01:53:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  In the 23rd century universe of &#8220;Star Trek,&#8221; people talked to each other using wireless personal communicators, had easy access to a vast database of information and spent hours gazing at a big wall-mounted video screen.<\/p>\n<p>  On 21st century Earth, <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2004\/03\/15\/BUGO35EG1T83.DTL\" title=\"Trek Tech\">that future is already here<\/a>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fun little article, though somehow I&#8217;m very _un_surprised that so many of today&#8217;s electronics are designed by geeks that grew up on Star Trek. Seems only natural to me.<\/p>\n<p>Now all we need is warp drive and the transporter&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/jacquelinepassey.blogs.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/im_not_the_only.html\" title=\"I'm not the only one who noticed life is becoming more and more like Star Trek\">Jacqueline<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fun little article, though somehow I&#8217;m very unsurprised that so many of today&#8217;s electronics are designed by geeks that grew up on Star Trek. Seems only natural to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2047,2038],"tags":[39,514,4097,65],"class_list":["post-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek","category-tech","tag-links","tag-science","tag-star-trek","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}