A future Borg race? Just how far will wearables go?

Star Trek has been credited with predicting various technologies with startling accuracy. Warp drive and transportation beams might still be beyond us, but watch the way the Enterprise’s crew interact with the computer, and you will see marked similarities with any householder telling Alexa to switch on some music or put corn flakes on the shopping list. Furthermore, many have suggested that the latest advances in 3D printing point to a future when the replicators by which crew members order synthetic food and drink that looks and tastes no different from the real thing could one day become a reality. However, surely the weird and wonderful alien races from the world’s favourite science fiction series are purely the result of vivid imagination and fantasy. However, according to some, the future of humanity might bear more than a passing resemblance to one of the series’ most feared creations.










