In the AI era, Star Trek is still alive

It is the time of AI, a time of innovation – more and more of our lives are influenced by digital systems that operate on electronic material and many of what was science fiction is now the fact of science.

And then there is the Star Trek-the constant legacy of those who dreamed of space exploration and advanced technology back on the very analog days of the twentieth century.

It was not long ago that ENIAC in Upenn and Project Whirlwind on MIT were MPs, Mammoth Systems with a movie and rotating wheels. And as these big mainframes began to give way to the personal computer, as a new generation of digital users came to the age, the Star Trek taking place 250 years from now according to the author’s guide that Gene Roddenberry the creator of the show, tells his stories: a futuristic spaceship and a futuristic spaceship. Amazing possibilities. Some of them, with the capacity of LLM, are now a reality.

The Star Trek tour in Historic NY

Star Trek’s experience set at Ticonderoga, New York is just below the street from the historic Fort Ticonderoga, where 250 years ago the French and British fought the seven -year war before the official foundation of newborn United States of America. Only a few hundred years later, look at what we have built.

Nearby, in a former Ticonderoga supermarket, James Cawley has recreated many pieces and costumes of the Star Trek original show – taking place 250 years in a fantastic future. And it’s amazing.

The place is open to the public for a reasonable admission end, and many have passed through its halls. William Shatner has visited twelve times.

Recently I got my annual trip there and got to talk to Cawley about his work.

Speaking to him, you get a kind of image of how it was to be involved on the ground floor, recreate all these watches in a new world where designs are so retro. In the late 1980s, Cawley Cold called the studio during the production of the next generation Star Trek and landed on work on costume staff. When his boss died, he was left with the original set of blue prints in the 1960s television series that Cawley was using to recreate the set. He also said he also re -examined the original three seasons of broadcasts so that he could get the appearance and sense of the sets.

“He played the right time, where he had to say what he said and reach the people he arrived,” he said, from the original Star Trek show. “Kennedy had been killed and we were going through a lot as a nation and Star Trek had the courage to go to television and say,” No it will be okay, we will get there and do it together. “

He talked about how the media changed from VHS and DVD to Blu-ray and 4K, and how, at this interventionist, computing material also changed.

“We had to split things up and repeat them,” he said, showing some of the designated projects that visitors see as they move around the space.

The project, he said, has sparked a strong reaction to more than a few people. Some are crying. Some don’t want to leave. All this, for me, talk about the power of nostalgia – as our lives change so much, we want to interact with the past.

The serene arrangement

As for why this museum is here, at Ticonderoga, not in a big city, Cawley highlighted the practicality of the choice.

“You look at 13,000 square feet,” he said. “(It would take) millions and millions of dollars to do this in a big city, and then it’s not practical, you won’t sell enough tickets to justify it – they couldn’t keep the Star Trek experience in Las Vegas for a while, because the real estate is expensive and so on.

Star Trek through AI’s lens

Think of this: In the 1970s and 1980s, we experienced an AI promotion through shows of shows such as Star Trek. As you look at the dated tools and types of the stage that the cast and the crew, you can see the prophecy of all we enjoy now because of the work of nerve networks.

My Visit: A Visual Experience

As I was traveling, I saw some of the graphics that the original actors would have seen as they went “where no man had gone before”.

Here are some of the photos I took while we experienced the set.

And I think this really shows how many of us feel as we look at a future with AI: we see it through the lens of Vintage Sci-Fi. Just a thought.