On September 8, 1966, NBC aired the first episode of a new TV series about a starship on a five year mission of space exploration. Since then, the Star Trek universe has coninued to feature amazing "futuristic" technologies.
Some technologies that we've now seen developed:
✔️ Tablet computers
✔️ Tricorders (mobile phones)
✔️ Voice-interface computers
✔️ Wearable computers/communicators
✔️ Portable memory
What are some things seen in Star Trek that you'd like to see finally developed?
Top comments (2)
The advances in the medical field. For example, the pills from ST4: The Voyage Home, that cured the lady who was undergoing dialysis. Also, the device that speeds up wound healing and the other equipment that replaces most invasive surgeries, or make them less dangerous.
This was a thing even back in '66, just not in a format most younger people would recognize. Tape drives have existed since the early 50's. They lacked significant capacity by todays standards, but they did exist. Funniest thing about this is that Star Trek predicted tape-based storage existing as a core technology far longre than it did (it's still used today, but almost exclusively for backups because it still has a better combination of physical/digital space ratios and pricing than hard drives).
As to the actual question, the medical technology is at the top of my list for obvious practical reasons, followed very closely by the VR tech (the holodeck/holosuites were really just plot devices more than anything else, but it's still a neat concept).