Predicting the Future

[Collector]

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[MusicallyInspired]

1973?

[Frede]

Must be the year the first "mobile phone" appeared. Though they obviously weren't very mobile back then, to say the least.

[Collector]

Correct.

 

Motorola was the first company to produce a handheld mobile phone. On 3 April 1973 Martin Cooper, a Motorola engineer and executive, made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment in front of reporters, placing a call to Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones#Predecessors

[MusicallyInspired]

The picture they used is kind of jarring. Also, that shot of Picard holding the PADD is from at least season 3 (no lines on the shoulders of his uniform, which only existed in season 1 and 2) so that year would be 1989 at least. Of course, they did have PADDs in the first season as well.

 

/geek mode

 

 

 

...just kidding, geek mode never turns off.

[Collector]

Trekkie :)

[MusicallyInspired]

I prefer 'Trekker'. :P

[pcj]

Trekist.

[MusicallyInspired]

Haha no I don't discriminate against my Trekking bretheren, I just prefer one term over the other.

[Collector]

Keep on Trekkin'

[Troels Pleimert]

I like kittens. I'm a kitter.

[SteveHNo96]

Most of the technology was based on science fiction stuff like Star Trek. That's actually what made it so cool.

 

If you think about it though, a lot of the people who made this stuff were nerds and nerds liked Star Trek as a kid, so they'd love this stuff. Plus, making it look like the stuff from Star Trek just made it that much more awesome.