One of the first designs of a humanoid robot was made by Leonardo da Vinci around 1495.
"Teleportation" was first coined in 1931 be science fiction author Charles Fort in his book Lo!
Light travels at a constant speed of approximately 670 million miles per hour. Currently, the most distant man mad spacecraft Voyager 1 travels at 38,600 miles per hour.
Narrator: Warp drive, teleportation, cloaking, robotics, deflector shields and the holodeck. These are all a part of the lexicon of pop culture but how real are they? Will each of us one day be able to travel to a far flung planet in an instant or submerse ourselves in a make believe world that is so real that we can touch it, or to be able to interact with artificial intelligence? In the world of Star Trek all of these are realties of the not so distant future.
Commentators: Lawrence M. Krauss Author, The Physics of Star Trek Michael Okuda Scenic Art Supervisor, Star Trek Franchise, 1988-2005 Jonathan Frakes Commander William Riker Avery Brooks Captain Benjamin Sisko Manny Coto Writer/Producer, Star Trek: Enterprise Vivian Sobchack Professor, UCLA School of Film & Television Andre Bormanis Science Advisor/Writer, Star Trek Franchise, 1993-2005 Denis Okuda Video Supervisor, Star Trek Franchise, 1995-2005 Eugene Polzik Professor of Physics, Copenhagen University, Denmark Marc Millis Aerospace Engineer, NASA Glenn Research Center David Smith Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Duke University David Schuring Research Associate, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Duke University Steven Cummer Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Duke University Dr. Mounir Laroussi Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Old Dominion University Dr. Robert Barker Program Manager, Electro-Energetic Physics, AFOSR Tom Sutliff Project Manager, NASA Glenn Research Center Reid Simmons Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University Dr. Joseph Paradiso Director, Responsive Environments Group, MIT Armin Shimerman Quark Dr. Richard Nuccitelli Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Old Dominion University Naren Shankar Science Advisor/Writer, Star Trek Franchise, 1992-1995 Brannon Braga Writer/Producer, Star Trek Franchise, 1990-2005 Jolene Blalock Sub-Commander T'Pol V. Michael Bove, Jr Director, Consumer Electronics Lab, MIT Rachel Brady Director, Visualization Technology Group, Duke University Kate Mulgrew Captain Kathryn Janeway
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