User:ENG

=Expectations=

I expect to earn a command of my own starship sometime on or after 2035. I plan to name it the USS (or UFPS) Serendipity. Ah, the USS Serendipity. That has a nice ring to it, don't you think?

Technology is racing ahead faster than we imaged not even 30 years ago. Our cellphones already outpace TOS-era communicators, for one thing. More are going to come by faster than we predicted. Eventually, AI whose intelligence exceeds our own will help us accelerate innovation, accelerate the acceleration of innovation, and even innovate many things completely for us while we sit back and enjoy a vacation at the New Martim Vaz resort.

=Creative Naming=

Whenever the players of Star Trek Online start to name our own planets & colonies, I think I will name mine "L'yel'flovi." Sure, M-Class planets may be taken first but that'll be the name of the first unnamed planet I can find. If I find an M-Class that no one else has discovered yet, I'll name it similarly- "Luyelfelovi."

=Real-world history of Trek gadgets=

Medical tricorder
An earliest rendition of the medical tricorder was invented by 2009.

PADD
PDAs (whether standalone or as a set of functionalities built into a multi-purpose portable communication device), invented in the 1990s, and electronic book readers, invented in the 2000s, are the very early forms of PADDs.

General multi-purpose "tablet"-type portable computers, like the iPad and HP Slate, having emerged in the 2010s, are also early PADD-like devices.

PADD remarks

 * It's fictional technology from 350 years in the future... {if} it were to become real, explaining it to you would be like explaining your computer to Isaac Newton. --Alan del Beccio 04:48, 29 January 2008 (UTC)original source of quote

I hereby make a formal request:  Bring back DYKBot. We'd like to enlighten ourselves with his quizzes again.