Trek Tech That Most Needs To Be Invented Before I Die:
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- How much of your coding is done by AI coding agents these days? Posted on June 21st, 2026 | 9056 votes
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- How much of your coding is done by AI coding agents these days? Posted on June 21st, 2026 | 33 comments
Re:Warp drive? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Holodeck (Score:5, Informative)
Holodeck never made sense. How can beams of light have a physical presence?
The holodeck used a combination of force fields, tractor beams, replicated matter, and projection. Stuff in the distance was just projected onto the walls. You walked around suspended on a force field that moved to give you the impression that you were travelling large distances when you were actually staying on the spot (with the aid of tweaks to the artificial gravity). Anything that you picked up would be replicated and then disintegrated when it went out of range.
This means that the prerequisites for a holodeck are:
The ability to manipulate gravity with very fine-grained control.
Force fields.
3D projection.
Enough computing power to model 3D worlds accurately.
Matter rearrangement (replication / disintegration).
Re:Holodeck (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Holodeck (Score:4, Informative)
And what about all the other devices?
Scott Adams already covered this [wordpress.com] back when you were all embryos.