The Trekker Files, part 2 of ???

How to make Star Trek Come True

Have you seen this article?

Treknology: The lessons and inspirations of Star Trek live on in today's technology innovators by Paul Boutin

If you haven't, read it first.

Read it? I'm not surprised. Star Trek is what got me into sciences, engineering, computers.

Do you realize how many Star Trek technologies are coming true, or have already came true?

The communicator is now appearing as cellular phones. See how close the Motorola StarTAC and the new Qualcomm PCS is to the old communicator?

How about that news where scientists have succeeded in teleporting a particle? That's just like a transporter!

How about anti-matter? Did you know if was successfully synthesized in 1995 in Geneva by Walter Oelert and team? That's what drives the Enterprise at warp speed!

Did you know hypo-spray, injection without needles, is NOT just a Star Trek fictional item? It is already in use in the military.

Did you know that you can buy Tricorder Mk I now? It's NOT a toy, but a real instrument, capable of measuring EM radiation, monitor light and color intensities, record temperatures, and measure barometric pressure. And yes, it also beeps and blinks, from Vital Technologies.

For you science folks, clip those articles about the teleporting photons, those nano-constructions, real-life tricoders, space technology... THEN volunteer for a school period where you explain how science and science fiction are related...

You can also help children by giving them books. STAR TREK BOOKS. The Academy young adult series, then Star Trek novels... Take them where no one has gone before...

So this holiday, instead of just giving gifts, try giving gifts in the name of your loved ones to local schools or libraries, probably Star Trek books.

You'll never know how many kids will start dreaming about going where no one has gone before.