In "City on the Edge of Forever," Spock is trying to build a tricorder out of early 20th century vacuum tubes and such, and Spock says, "I'm trying to build mnemonic circuits out of stone knives and bear skins." I use that line all the time when I have what appears to be an impossible task! LLAP

You and many others went into tech because of Star Trek. Too bad there is nothing like it today. And now the characters of that series are passing on with time. And so it goes.

That is EXACTLY what they are planning for. They don't want an "Arab Spring," or another Occupy Wall Street type of thing going on. You can see the militarization of police when people came out against the shootings in Missouri and New York. Our police have become the Gestapo of the US. The military are the next step. All this over the past thirty or so years. I am glad that I probably will not be alive in thirty years to see this. (On the off chance that I should be alive, I plan to get the hell out of the Police States of America within the next couple of years) Even today, there are military patrolling Grand Central and Penn Stations in New York City on a daily basis. Yes they are fewer than they were after the 9/11 inside job, but they are still there. The news media is partially at fault as well, because for the most part, they are on the side of the powers that be, because they ARE the powers that be. Hell, they bought many lawmakers with their lobbying money, and hidden campaign contributions. They mostly show the part that these powers that be want them to show. (And don't tell me that there is a massive liberal media in the US, because if there was, they would be calling for an end to capitalism, and the current oligarchy that is in place in the US.)