His vision of the future inspired legions of engineers, nerds, and techies, as well as Bluetooth headsets, the iPad, Siri, and cell phones. But what kind of techie was the late Star Trek creator Gene ...
In 1962, John Glenn sat in his capsule waiting for his rocket engines to light-up and lift him to space. But first, he insisted that Katherine Johnson double-check the electronic computer’s trajectory ...
A scene in the most recent episode of Star Trek: Discovery finds main character Michael Burnham set to work debugging some mysterious computer code. Well, mysterious to her, at least — eagle-eyed ...
Critics of President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) program have questioned the feasibility of the laser and particle-beam weapons, sensing and guidance devices, battle management ...
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10 Star Trek episodes that were ahead of their time
The computer age was still in its relative infancy — personal computers didn't exist, there was no internet, and barely any networking of any kind. Yet, "Star Trek" used a computer every episode, and ...
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