In the Star Trek world we see a couple of examples of current technology being enhanced or even being caused by the interference of 'future' characters.
The most memorable and humorous was James Doohan's part in Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home, where his character, Scotty, gives a 20th century industrial supplier the means to manufacture "transparent aluminium" a product from the future in exchange for 20th century goods.
McCoy asks Scotty about the implications of this to which Scotty replies "How do we know he didn't invent it?"
In a far more sinister storyline is the Voyager episode Futures End (A double episode) where another industrialist, Henry Starling, played by Ed Begly Junior, who in real life bears a remarkable likeness to Bill Gates. Starling's mega company is called "Chronowerx" and there are implied similarities to Gates' company, Microsoft.
We look at fiction and see enlightenment in real life.
The exponential growth of the microelectronics industry was not due to 20th century expertise or even serendipity, it was actuallly a direct result of 29th century intervention, and both Bill Gates and Paul Allen witnessed the crash landing of a 29th century timeship and they used the technology there to form Microsoft...
It all makes perfect sense to me now!
The most memorable and humorous was James Doohan's part in Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home, where his character, Scotty, gives a 20th century industrial supplier the means to manufacture "transparent aluminium" a product from the future in exchange for 20th century goods.McCoy asks Scotty about the implications of this to which Scotty replies "How do we know he didn't invent it?"
In a far more sinister storyline is the Voyager episode Futures End (A double episode) where another industrialist, Henry Starling, played by Ed Begly Junior, who in real life bears a remarkable likeness to Bill Gates. Starling's mega company is called "Chronowerx" and there are implied similarities to Gates' company, Microsoft.We look at fiction and see enlightenment in real life.
The exponential growth of the microelectronics industry was not due to 20th century expertise or even serendipity, it was actuallly a direct result of 29th century intervention, and both Bill Gates and Paul Allen witnessed the crash landing of a 29th century timeship and they used the technology there to form Microsoft...
It all makes perfect sense to me now!
