Did Star Trek predict the future of UX?

Daley Wilhelm
UX Collective
Published in
9 min readJan 14, 2023

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A red and orange nebula sparkles against the black background of space.
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Science fiction has often been credited with laying the groundwork for real life technological leaps. Nebula Award-winning sci-fi writer Pamela Sargent called the genre, “the literature of ideas.” From robots, artificial intelligence, and rockets, science fiction has entertained a lot of ideas on what science might be able to create if given a few years and the dedication of some brilliant minds. Therefore, the…

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