We can go back even further, and see how Captain Kirk, Spock, Scotty, Sulu, and Dr. Mccoy made great use of their iPhones to call home.  Oh wait a minute, I do believe they called them communicators back then.   They even had the flip kind that protected the LCD screen when call the Enterprise. You know how hostile those alien environments can be to electronics, so the flip style was a must have feature.  Plus it gave the actors to make that slick and cool flipping action before calling.  Kind of like a “quick draw” of the future.

While they don’t talk about it much in movies and television shows, bandwidth is really a big thing that plays a role behind the scenes in these stories.  While we think it’s cool to watch movies online without downloading anything,  just imagine how much bandwidth it must take to beam an entire person from orbit on the Enterprise down to some alien Terra-firma.  Forget about one person, how about an entire away team.  In the latest Star Trek, they even manage to pull of just such a stunt while the ship is moving at light speed.  No such thing as lag time there.

I must admit, I’ve been a big fan of watching movies on and TV shows on my computer for a few years ago.  I actually owned a high-def capable screen for my computer long before I bought one for my family room.  Seems kind of backwards I know, but that’s just the way these things are going.  Watching television and movies online and without commercial interruption is really the way things are going.  Even the big movie companies are finally moving in that direction.  They were resistant for a long time, but I do believe they’ve finally seen the light.  As my friends the Borg would say, “Resistance is futile”.