<story><title>First Demonstration Of Time Cloaking</title><url>http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26992/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>redthrowaway</author><text>These articles always remind me of how prescient Star Trek was when it came to technology, and how we really don&apos;t have anything like that these days.  The last big SciFi show, Battlestar Galactica, seemed to go out of its way to avoid making any bold tech predictions, and the Star Trek franchise seems to have fizzled out (that movie doesn&apos;t count).  ST:TOS predicted cloaks just &lt;i&gt;six years&lt;/i&gt; after the first &lt;i&gt;laser&lt;/i&gt; was ever fired, and 3 years before development began on UNIX.  Holograms took until TNG, but they were still a good 20 years early.&lt;p&gt;I feel like we&apos;re getting ripped off.  I want radical predictions that I can watch daytime specials on Discovery about in 50 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>randallsquared</author><text>In the postwar era, we [Americans, though I wasn&apos;t born, yet] were hopeful about the future.  Our science fiction reflected this, but it was just the tip of the iceberg: the whole culture assumed progress and advancement.  Immediately after, though, there was a time of fear and pessimism about the future, bringing the concepts of nuclear winter, climate change, resource shortages, and the end of the space age.  We call this period &quot;the 70s&quot;, and our current culture seems to be far more influenced by that than it is by the previous expectation of momentum and progress.&lt;p&gt;Also, our basic understanding of physics-as-applied-to-the-limits-of-technology hasn&apos;t much changed from 1960 to 2010, unlike the period from 1910 to 1960.</text></comment>
<story><title>First Demonstration Of Time Cloaking</title><url>http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26992/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>redthrowaway</author><text>These articles always remind me of how prescient Star Trek was when it came to technology, and how we really don&apos;t have anything like that these days.  The last big SciFi show, Battlestar Galactica, seemed to go out of its way to avoid making any bold tech predictions, and the Star Trek franchise seems to have fizzled out (that movie doesn&apos;t count).  ST:TOS predicted cloaks just &lt;i&gt;six years&lt;/i&gt; after the first &lt;i&gt;laser&lt;/i&gt; was ever fired, and 3 years before development began on UNIX.  Holograms took until TNG, but they were still a good 20 years early.&lt;p&gt;I feel like we&apos;re getting ripped off.  I want radical predictions that I can watch daytime specials on Discovery about in 50 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RyanMcGreal</author><text>I&apos;m not sure that Star Trek was prescient about what we would go on to invent, so much as it actually inspired a generation of inventors.</text></comment>