What Star Trek tech would you most like to see in real life?

I feel like Star Trek is inspiring itself into existence.

You’re forgetting automatic doors sliding open. That was sci-fi in the 60s.

Jetson’s had face-time in the 60’s.

Our phones are kind of like a communicator, a padd, a tricorder, a universal translator, a music player, a personal computer, a game console, a watch, and a GPS device all rolled into one. I think if you described a smartphone to a Star Trek writer in the 60s they would have said it was too far fetched, and that even in the future one device would not be capable of performing all those tasks.

12) When Trek was aired computers still used punch cards - yet Trek used what appears to be a 3.5" floppy

Scotty talking into the mouse was the most hilarious image ever!

Thanks. Don't forget that in "Requiem for Methuselah" they had a free-standing flat-screen monitor. Plus, the sickbay's vital sign sensing equipment didn't exist then, either. Not to mention true motion-sensing doors that operate without that old thing under the floor you had to step on to activate them. Sci-fi often leads the way. There are countless scientists working today, who will tell you they were inspired by things like Star Trek, Dr. Who, Space 1999, UFO, etc. tavi.

The thing is, it wasn't a prediction so much as an inspiration that caused folks to develop these technologies.

Talking to computers. Should have use Scotty's clip from Star Trek four. " Hello computer." Holding the mouse as a mic.

Star trek didn't predict the future. The show inspired future scientists.

I'd like to see a dermal regenerator. Healing minor wounds instantly with no stinging.

You missed out the document pad that Yeoman Rand hands to Kirk to sign. For the past few years delivery drivers have been handing the exact same pieces of kit to their customers for them to sign for packages. Some even look similar to the one Kirk is seen frequently using.

They had food replicators on the Original Enterprise

I don't think star trek predicted technological advances as much as it inspired them. You have to envision something before you can create it. Star Trek brought crazy ideas to life giving practical examples.

Mr. Atoz would be disappointed if you didn't include his contribution, in your next video!!! He did give us the small, metallic discs, that when put onto "into" the player, in his library, would bring you to other places, much like movies do for us, via DVD and Bluray, today.

I purchased my first personal computer, an IBM PS1 in 1992. I was a teen when Star Trek premiered. I opened the box my computer came in started taking out the components, found a blue 3.5 inch disc I was supposed to stick into a slot, and flashed back to the first time Spock did that on the show. The future was years ago.

You forgot automatically doors. Getting into supermarkets would be alot more difficult without Star Trek. 😉😁

Gene Roddenberry was a genius! The Replicator was also seen in the original Star Trek series.

One reason a flip phone is still better than today's smart phones, is they never unlocked themselves in your pocket and started doing whatever they want, connecting to any app they decide to set going

Talking to your computer was portrayed in Kirk's time.

Proof of a maxim that I coined years ago - “Coolness is when reality surpasses the sci-fi of your youth.”

In the 80's I was using a hypo spray device to inject insulin. It was called the Medi-jector.

I can't believe you missed the most important prediction of the future. Automatic door openers! When I first watched star Trek as a kid that was by far the most fascinating and unrealistic technology in the series. Since you are so young you don't realize this

I'd say less predicted and more influenced.

This is a reason why I love Sci-fi. Simply, because it inspires people to develop and create new things, it just pushes us forward.

The automatic door( as seen in malls) was first seen on Star Trek. Stage hands had to manually control their opening and closing of compartment doors on the Enterprise.

You left out compact discs -- vast amounts of data and images that can be stored on small shiny discs like DVDs and CDs. This was first shown in the 1969 ST episode "All Our Yesterdays."

Actually TOS had both the transporter and food synthesizers which did predate 3d printing.

Yeah, but the Star Trek communicators work without cell phone towers or satellites... :)

Touchscreens were commonly around in the 1980s. I used an early one in 1979 on a Texas Instruments computer. The LCD colour screens took time. Motorola was working on handheld cell phones in 1939. The technology was diverted into the Walkie Talkie delaying civilian use until the late 1940's & 1950's.

The original flip phones where designed to replicate StarTreck's communicators. As others mentioned, several modern inventions where prompted, or inspired, by StarTreck. Future inventor : Watch StarTreck. WOW ! I want THAT ! Work very hard to reproduce StarTreck technology for some years.

The first tablet device seen on screen before it was actually invented was in 2001 A Space Odyssey made in 1968. It was called an IBM news pad. I remember the jet injector from Navy Basic Training in 1975 when we got our injections. I even used it for a short time after I completed Hospital Corpsman training and was giving injections to the Marine Recruits at Camp Pendleton. Even though it was a quick shot of air some of the Marines jerked their arms and got a small cut from it. The Army uses something similar to the Google Glass in it's Apache Helicopters and in 1962 Hughes aircraft invented one. While your info is basically correct because you are just talking about Star Trek you should include when the devices were first seen on the screen and in real life.

The original series had food replicators although they were in a common area instead of in each crew member's quarters.

The statement "Beam me over or aboard" goes way back. It use to be when ever some one wanted to transfer form one ship to another ship they would use a plank called a Beam and so they would say something like, "I'm beaming over".

This was fun! Being a huge Star Trek nerd, I wanted to add that there were food replicators in the original Star Trek series as well. :) As much as I've always wanted to see the Holodeck come into our current reality, science is showing more and more, we actually LIVE in a simulation already. Only with the 'safety's off'.....sigh....:) Thank you! Great video!!

Instant vaccines would come in very handy right about now.

Twilight Zone, "Valley of the Shadow, 1963, showed the replicator!"

unless i am mistaken, the holodeck first began in Star Trek the animated series. so the animated series deserves a shout-out for it. correct me if i am wrong.

The communicator is a walkie talkie , that tech has been around since ww2

The .mp3 file type is directly linked to star trek, allowing music to be taken and played anywhere.

The companies that developed voice recognition software were absolutely Star Trek fans! Without Star Trek, we would not have any of it! That said, would all the technology we use today exist if Star Trek did not inspire them? Discuss...

I still have my razor from high school too. It was a bic disposable.

It's a very small thing but as someone who watched TOS in its original run I'll never forget the first time I walked up to a door that opened by itself.

Everyone forgets The Clothes made by The Computer- I wish that was available, then everything would FIT right.

Well done on the video. Star Trek was indeed ahead of many things we use today.🖖

What I like about ST compared to other Sci-Fi shows is that it’s not all shoot em up. It’s show that makes us think and dream.

You dropped the ball big time with not mentioning flat screen TVs from the original series. Requiem for Methuselah

William shatner captain Kirk the greatest character in television history please god let William shatner live to IOO years young thank you !

Thank you for being the first person I have seen to acknowledge that 3D printing was established before Next Gen made the replicator. As always GR was inspired by science and used it to make ST technology, great video

You still have your Razor from high school because it's indestructible and has signal everywhere. 😂🤙

Gene Roddenberry was a time traveler who was stranded in the past...he wrote scripts from his history...

I saw a doctor/ technician use something very much like the tricorder Bones used to read peoples symptoms. It was used to read symptoms on a patient with a pacemaker

That episode where Picard describes the progression of technology to the woman from a primitive world is one of my all time faves.

I’ve 3D printed dentures, teeth, and models of people’s mouths.

The way Data looks up info within his head is exactly like using Google/Wikipedia today. And you forgot the first ever Star Trek inspired invention...automatic doors!

Zenon: girl of the 21st Century predicted the Ipad, FaceTime, modern laptops, holograms and modern Space Age fashion.

Wide screen TV and fax machines. Yep. They were there.

Many things attributed in this video to the TNG series were in the original Star Trek

Even in the mid-90’s and early-00’s you could hear cell phone call with an 800/900 MHz police scanner.

1. Androids. 2. Computers operating at terahertz instead of Gigs. 3. Warp tech. 4. A star ship that can hold 300 people. 5. True telepathy.

Medical field has the, EpiPen, insulin pens. In the last season of star trek there was a episode where is has a flat screen.

Gene Roddenberry, from what I read would review his scripts with: doctors, nurses, engineers, and the like and, have them critique the accuracy of what he wrote. So often times their knowledge and ideas on emerging technologies medical and otherwise influenced how the various episodes were written and, what was presented in them.

It's not actually that Star Trek "predicted" the future so much as "inspired" it. There are several inventors who developed innovative technologies who credit specific Star Trek props and even episodes for their groundbreaking ideas.

Touchscreens were described in 1965. Several groups built them in the early 1970s through today. So no neither Start Trek nor Apple get the nod for that one. At best star trek used it in the show because it looked cool. As to the pads there were a lot of PDA type devices long before Apple got the idea.

Digitized music stored in a computer was a star trek idea

Fascinating

The "Transporter Room". Maybe a few centuries in the future, but I'm sure it will be a reality someday.

I really like this video. My father worked on the original Hypospray Jet Injector. They developed the multi dose version that allowed this to be used by the military and others that needed mass inoculations. . I have been working on an AI based Tricorder device. I have many functions working parts for years. The AI took from the 1970’s until a couple years ago. I needed a processor that was not available until recently. I needed mass storage that I now available. Small high-resolution screens are now here. Speech recognition has not been all that good. What is good now is only available via the internet for my project. It works with my AI, but my portable instrument is not on the internet. It also cost per / second. The computers are really cheep. Around $20 with a SD drive. . I also remember Captain Kirk having one of the first big screen televisions. In the Next Generation They had notebook computer on their desk. Captain Kirk often was brought a tablet computer and he would use a pen stylus. These things are now common. In fact, we have much better.

FYI the Sask Tel museum in Regina Saskatchewan has a video telephone system on display which Saskatchewan developed in the the early 1960s. I was fascinated by this thing when I visited the museum as a kid kid in the late 60s.

I thought the big screen TV would make your list. In the original Star Trek on screen is now a large flat screen TV.

For Facetime with video calling on your phone I would give the credit to Space 1999 in my book with their hand held communication device.

In Blade Runner, Harrison Ford uses a plastic card to open his apartment door. Later to be used in Hotels.

You also missed out the LED lighting panel as shown in "The Return of the Archons". We now have these today to rplace incandescent filament bulbs and neon tubes.

I can’t wait for the food replicator

You forgot about Flat-Screen TV's, NASA is studying a real-life Warp Drive, Magnetic Levitation, etc.

I can't wait to own a Programmable Matter Computer.

"Science fiction. Is having a hard time keeping ahead of science fact!" I forget who said it, it was one of the set designers for Star Trek, though.

TNG technologies were actually faaar ahead of what we have today. The replicator is far more advanced than even the most advanced 3D printer in existence. And the holodeck is far more advanced than any VR/AR/MR/XR experience today.

The holodeck and replicator have no resemblance to 3D printing or virtual reality headsets. The replicator uses patters to 'beam' sample things into existence. It isn't squirting ingredients out of tubes. The holodeck produces solid objects, including simulations of people you can, um, uh, touch. We are Centuries from either device.

I think tablet computers wete first shown in 2001:a space odyssey (late 1960's)

A 3D printer's technology is very different from a replicator's. Star Trek works a lot with energy-to-matter conversion, in the replicator, in the holodeck, in the transporter. This is something we are nowhere near accomplishing (as far as I know :) ).

But Scotty still can't beam me up!

In High school over 50 years ago during ST TOS we had 2 guys discussing ST. The class genius and the class jock. The jock said he thought we would we would have every device on ST, including warp drive and the transporter. But the 1 thing he never thought would be possible, that was the desk top computer. The class genius said, that the computer could be huge but all you need see is the readout unit or terminal.

Very cool vidio

I find it amusing how ironic and accurate the prediction of the future where amazing technology and computer systems run everything efficiently, yet some poor sap is still running around with a clip board filling out a hand written log! This video even opens with this!

Many people don't know that the person responsible for wifi was a beautiful actress. Her name was Hedy Lamarr. She was once married to a munisions manufacture and a member of the Natzi party. She left him, came to America to be an actress, but was an inventor, and much of our tech used today, in it's infancy, was discovered by her.

you forgot about the floppy disc similar to Captain Kirk's chair. You can buy a real star trek communicator bluetooth device from Amazon and star trek website

any video about star trek is a thumb up.

If only Kidneys could be cured with a tablet..

In 1983, Hewlett-Packard released the HP-150 which was a primitive form of touch screen but it worked. My first experience was when UPS Truck Leasing, where I was a Mechanic put Windows 95 with touch screen computer towers on the shop floor for us mechanics to use with a small air conditioner in it to keep the computer cool. This way we just had to wipe the screen clean once in a while as our fingers were always dirty/greasy. Doing our paperwork or looking up a schematic of what we were working on was great.

Let's not forget that the MIT Engineer who invented the mobile phone (he worked for Motorola) said that HE got the inspiration from Star Trek. There's a documentary hosted by Tasha Yar (I mean Denise Crosby) that shows inventions based on Star Trek, including Warp Drive being developed by current MIT engineers, and 3-D printers in an Israeli laboratory that are creating human organs for transplant (Dr. Crusher did a spinal transplant on Worf).

I remember when I was a kid and the stores just installed doors that automatically opened. That was a TREK technology

jerry Anderson also had a lot of ideas look at thunderbirds captain scarlets stingray etch

Star Trek did not predict the future, it shaped it. Scientist from all around the world admit to watching and loving Star Trek and wanted real life to resemble that. Might wanna think about doing some real research.

Was the federation “credits” they used a prediction of crypto currency???

In one ST:TNG episode where they pick up those people in cryonic suspension. One of them says he wants to watch the t.v. Data tells him “That particular form of communication did not last much past 2040” At the time I didn’t understand how that would be possible. Now I know. It’s all on subscription internet channels. (Netflix, Hulu, CBS All Access, Disney Plus, etc, etc, etc.)

In The Original Series one Episode They Used a Small Silver Disc That Stores Information About Other Worlds, It Looked Alott Like a Compact Disc, The Episode was Call "All Our Yesterdays"

Star Trek didn’t predict the future, Star Trek inspired the future. In an age where tyranny threatened our way of life, Roddenberry wanted to show a humanity in the future who could invent things that would allow us to become more enlightened and above the need for greed. Unfortunately, Roddenberry couldn’t envision how social media could create collective stupidity or how overdependent we could be become on technology. Sadly, both have occurred.

Okay. We all know your Razor ring tone in high school was a Papa Roach song, don't we? 😆