Star Trek TECHNOLOGY IS HERE...SORT OF.

The captain orders, "Take it to warp-eight, shields up!" All hands are busy "making it so." The power-transfer conduits between the warp core and the warp-engine nacelles heat up. The verterium coils begin converting the core's energy into the propulsive warp fields. Within, seconds, the galaxy-class starship blasts away at a speed faster than light, taking the crew to the furthest reaches of the universe.

Sounds convincing and familiar, right? In the past thirty years, the lexicon of Star Trek technology has become almost commonplace; with warp speed, ...

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