Star Trek fans have for decades now enjoyed pointing out how the technologies portrayed on the show have come through into the real world - the shapes of computer interfaces, and other such gee-whiz dream tech not only from the original series but on into later generations. Smithsonian online has shown us, now, perhaps the beginnings of something like replication. It's exciting, but there is a factor in this development with a certain amount of squick-inducing concern, too. A "fully functioning" 4-millimeter liver begs ... an awful lot more questions than the instant materialization of synthesized "Tea, Earl Grey, hot."
Hmm.
What to think of this prospect? What do you think?
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THANKS FOR THIS POST. (Laboriously texted from my flip-phone, invented by Star Trek for what then was the future, but now is the past.)
You've seen my phone! I always say of it, "I have a very dumb phone - Shatner would have been embarrassed to carry it in 1966.
He'd only carry it *now* for some sort of photo op. And money.
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