InstantForum.NET v4.1.4GeckoTech/ISOMEDIA Forumshttp://geckoforums.isomedia.com/forums@geckotech.isomedia.comThu, 20 Nov 2008 09:09:24 GMT20http://geckoforums.isomedia.com/Topic8524-17-1.aspx[quote][b]parisamour (5/25/2006)[/b][hr]ME...........BATH............CHANNEL 5...........NO WAY.[/quote]</P><P>I seem to remember there being problems in Bristol as well with channel 5, but its only an hour up the road i suppose.</P><P>You'll have to keep tabs on the thread to catch up with what you missed!:)Thu, 25 May 2006 09:00:07 GMTQ of the Continuumhttp://geckoforums.isomedia.com/Topic8524-17-1.aspx[quote][b]DomCat (5/25/2006)[/b][hr]I saw most of the prog Q and it was amazing to hear of all the people who were inspired by Star Trek and went on to become leaders in the fields of communication, computers, medicine and of course space.<P>Mobile phones are a result of someone noticing the communicators that were used in TOS. He took that idea of wireless communications and applied it to inventing the mobile phone........though admittedly they looked like walkie talkies at first and not the small streamlined ones we have now![/quote]<P>My dad got one of those 'Walky Talkies' and he still has it (not to use but stored away) and it is a huge wapping great Nokia that is the size of the Empire State Building when its stood up. Its odd really, cos he's a technophobe whereas I am the gadget boy and he had a mobile before I did.:)<P>I wonder if any of the characters in Trek influenced people to take careers in medicine, science and technology?Thu, 25 May 2006 08:58:29 GMTQ of the Continuumhttp://geckoforums.isomedia.com/Topic8524-17-1.aspxME...........BATH............CHANNEL 5...........NO WAY.Thu, 25 May 2006 05:54:19 GMTparisamourhttp://geckoforums.isomedia.com/Topic8524-17-1.aspxI saw most of the prog Q and it was amazing to hear of all the people who were inspired by Star Trek and went on to become leaders in the fields of communication, computers, medicine and of course space.</P><P>Mobile phones are a result of someone noticing the communicators that were used in TOS. He took that idea of wireless communications and applied it to inventing the mobile phone........though admittedly they looked like walkie talkies at first and not the small streamlined ones we have now!Thu, 25 May 2006 05:38:11 GMTDomCathttp://geckoforums.isomedia.com/Topic8524-17-1.aspxThere was an 120 minute (believe it or not) program on Channel 5 in the UK entitled "How William Shatner changed the World" and I wondered if anyone had any comments.</P><P>For those who don't know, it was about how Star Trek had influenced some of the technology we see today. It went into a lot of detail about how TOS and TNG modelled some of our contemporary technology such as flip phones etc but never went into a lot of detail about how Ent may have some influence in future technologies. </P><P>I wondered also, how forum members may view and wish to comment on some of the technologies in ent that we see nowadays and how they apply in our daily lives?:)Thu, 25 May 2006 03:08:01 GMTQ of the Continuum