(I) Transport yourself back to the early 1960s before the now-famous television series Star Trek first appeared. (II) At that time, only visionaries would have dared imagine that people of the 23rd century would be learning about the world on huge flat-panel video screens and talking to one another across the width of the planet using wireless devices. (III) Future weapons will dispense entirely with the clumsy darts and wires. (IV) Yet today these scenes are commonplace. (V) So it is fitting that new high-tech devices also have similarities with fictional technology as it was first presented on that famous science-fiction series.