Science Fiction Was the Roadmap

I don't think people realize how much Star Trek has prepared us for using AI as we are using it today.

My interaction with Co-Pilot, Gemini, or Claude, if you look at it, is very similar to how they're using AI in Star Trek. It's just a conversation with the computer to get outputs of the things that they're looking for.

You can even see how interacting with the computer in Star Trek changed over many generations, from simply reading fundamental data to providing output to what we have now in