[rbanffy]

It’s much easier to work for a goal you can see and communicate clearly. Science-fiction is useful for that. Motorola’s Startac wouldn’t be without Star Trek’s communicator. It turns out a screen is more convenient for the other things we do with phones (they were getting smaller before every phone became a PDA, a camera, an e-reader, an e-mail client and so on) and the Star Trek design came and went.

I speak of Star Trek because it shows an utopian future while most other large sci-fi fictional universes go the opposite way and show dystopias. In that sense, Trek tries to predict a future while others try to prevent one.

There is enormous value in proposing a future people want to be part of.

And I miss the carpet.