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[Pow]

As a lifelong devotee of Star Trek I cannot believe I made that error. Thanks for pointing it out.

[Krel]

[Bud Brewster]

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Until recently, passengers were asked to turn off their cell phones during take-offs and landings because they interfered with the electronics in the cockpit.

However, our newest trusty "smart phones" (which are too smart for me to want one ) now have an "airplane" setting which connects to the plane's onboard device. It relays the signal to ground-based receivers and passes it on to the recipients.

Gentlemen, clearly we are no longer living in the fondly remember 1950s. Nor are we living in what we think of as the "present".

Obviously we are now living in what we envisioned as "The Future" when we were kids!
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Krel]

[Bud Brewster]

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Unfortunately, your correct. In fact, my statement was completely wrong! I shouldn't have said "we are now living in what we envisioned as The Future when we were kids."

We envisioned a "fun future"— but what we got was a future with technology that includes "harmful side effects". It's similar to the way many of the "miracle drugs" we've developed are a mixed bag of good and bad effects.
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Cell phones are great — except that people tend to stare at them instead of talking to the person right across the table in a restaurant.

And God forbid that kids should talk to other people . . . instead of texting half-literate messages and playing those witless video game, not to mention the way they no longer have to use their own imaginations!

And let's not forget how handy cell phones are at remotely detonating bombs. Technology has revolutionized war . . . and terrorism.

Medical research has done wonders to improve medical treatments . . . but occasionally it invents new viral threats.

Social media actually encourages people to remain isolated, rather than encouraging them to develop physical friendships.

Electronic forms of entertainment make it far too easy to neglect anything involving physical exercise.

The negative affect on people's attention span is painfully apparent in the way all forms of entertainment have become so fast paced.

David, for a moment I somehow forgot about the future that was supposed to include those amazing undersea cities, Moon Colonies, interplanetary travel, ray guns, and rocket belts or jet packs.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Maurice]

Star Trek gets credited with inspiring all sorts of things, but one such claim gets constant repetition in our mobile phone age: that the original series flip-top communicators inspired the cell phone, or at least specifically the “flip phone”.

But in spring 2021 an April 1963 news clipping started making the rounds on social media that featured a “pocket” telephone that looks a little…familiar.

We covered that on FACT TREK in an article titled Flip-Top Flip-Flop
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