William Shatner says we're closer than ever to actually having 'Star Trek' technology

It may seem fanciful to imagine a world in which you can actually say, “Beam me up, Scotty,” and be transported through a pillar of light, but according to William Shatner, a world full of the sci-fi technology we saw in Star Trek is “not that far-fetched.” During a panel on the plausibility of science fiction concepts at Smithsonian magazine’s “Future Is Here” festival Friday, the former Captain Kirk addressed the audience about how much of the technology from his late-’60s Star Trek...

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