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In The Original Series in the 60s, people had no idea what the future would look like or what technology would look like. In one of the early episodes, they had a paper print out machine on the bridge that looked like a fax machine, which was considered futuristic in the 1960s.
Like the example of the Enterprise fax machine, what technology or system do you think are we displaying in the current Star Trek shows that will show how dated we will become in the future?
2D screens.
I've got one better: in at least one if not two instances, Spock uses an E6B flight computer (a specialized aviation slide rule, WWII technology) to calculate a time of arrival/impact problem. They're still made and sold today for student pilots but they're definitely outmoded.
Cars that don't solar charge themselves.
Non-self-driving cars
Physical Mail other than packages
Passwords
Ad driven economy
Televisions anywhere but in a dedicated movie room.
Software ownership
Media Ownership
I want to do to there.
I'm not especially optimistic for our future, so I think what will date us in the future, if we're around much longer, is the technology we have that they can't anymore.
Lens flare.
Weirdly, that was never used until the "everything must seem weird futuristic and rather crap instead of places where we would actually live and work" aesthetic of the post 2000 star trek.
The holodeck as cool as it is falls apart under scrutiny.
A full dive VR headset uses far less space and would be capable of offering a better experience.
It's also more realistic to expect given how unlikely we can make playing inside a microwave safe or possible.
An advanced type of sexbot will be dating us in the future. Or occasionally just hook up too.
Commander Riker?
In The Original Series in the 60s, people had no idea what the future would look like or what technology would look like. In one of the early episodes, they had a paper print out machine on the bridge that looked like a fax machine, which was considered futuristic in the 1960s.
Fun fact, the "glass teletype" was only developed two years before TOS started airing. Putting text on a screen was still noteworthy in 2001: A Space Odyssey, another two years on.