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Case Study: The Cell Phone
 Every day the cell phone is used by billions
of people in their everyday lives and many could not live without it.
Star Trek has long been noted as being the inspiration for this
ubiquitous technology, which was first invented in the early 1970s by
Martin Cooper at Motorola. Cooper is clear about what was the
inspiration for his invention - the original series of Star Trek.
"There's captain Kirk talking on his communicator, talking with no
dialling, that was not a fantasy to us to me it was an objective" he
said during an interview in a Discovery Channel documentary called "How
William Shatner Changed the World". This is one of the best examples of times when the apparent ease of use, convenience and functionality of a piece of technology in science fiction inspired the creation of new technology that has now been brought to the masses and, one could argue, has even surpassed the capabilities of the fictional technology it was supposed to emulate. Science fiction and as an inspiration and blueprint, or as Cooper said, an objective for new advancements in science and technology..
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