Hi MOKSHA;

I had spotted a flaw in your assumption, well sort of, but I couldn't point a finger directly to it yesterday. This happens when your blood levels get whacked out.

A night to think on it, and I realized what it was. Silly me, I knew this too.

It's not unusual for a good director to accurately predict a future technology. Providing it's not that far off, and they do their research. The writers of Star Trek made an art out of it for years. That's about to be blown out of the water by these current jokers, but that's beside the point.

In the 1960s, Star Trek appeared to be a long ways off, but apparently it's just around the corner. Some bright boy at NASA is even close to cracking warp drive technology. And a lot of their tech has become a reality already. Nearly identical to its screen counterpart. Only the transporter is a bit of a reach, but we always knew that it was. Quite a change from early sci-fi, where a technology made its screen counterpart look primitive by the time it was developed.

And take a gander at Arthur C Clarke, who actually determined how we would orbit probes to the outer solar system, thirty years before we did it for real.

Now if you like it scary, check out the very dark science fiction of Phillip K Dick. He dreamed up some very scary concepts, and every time one of those techs is developed, he was right on. I wonder what his paranoid butt would have to say about the current spying issue? Because he predicted it.

Tim