To boldly go...
Life imitating art? Science fiction predicting the future? Back to the future?
Yup.
The other day in the airport, I swear I saw Lt. Uhura... no, not the actress Nichelle Nichols. It was actually just some guy in a baseball cap.
The thing was, he had a bluetooth headpiece attached to his ear, and it stuck out -- and looked just like communications earpiece that Lt. Uhura used in Star Trek. The similarity was so striking that it actually made my head snap -- not that I haven't seen the bluetooth things before -- it's just that this particular one was so Uhura-like...
I shouldn't be surprised. We already have the "communicators" (a.k.a. clamshell cell phones). The internet isn't far off from the omniscient computer on the Enterprise. Now only if I could beam myself to somewhere warm!
Yup.
The other day in the airport, I swear I saw Lt. Uhura... no, not the actress Nichelle Nichols. It was actually just some guy in a baseball cap.
The thing was, he had a bluetooth headpiece attached to his ear, and it stuck out -- and looked just like communications earpiece that Lt. Uhura used in Star Trek. The similarity was so striking that it actually made my head snap -- not that I haven't seen the bluetooth things before -- it's just that this particular one was so Uhura-like...
I shouldn't be surprised. We already have the "communicators" (a.k.a. clamshell cell phones). The internet isn't far off from the omniscient computer on the Enterprise. Now only if I could beam myself to somewhere warm!
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