Starlog Entries 5 and 6

Starlog Entry 5
Must-Have Technology From Star Trek
Transporter - I personally would love to have transporters exist. The hassle of travel would greatly diminish, and our real exploration could commence!

If the transporter did not exist in the Star Trek universe, I'm sure the universe would still exist; it does not depend on the existence of a transporter. But, the universe would definitely not be the same. They would have to shuttle everywhere they wanted to explore (as in Enterprise), and the exploration in  all the series would have seriously slowed. They would not have met all the different species, and the Federation would not have been near as diverse. 

Starlog Entry 6
Where do you see Artificial Intelligence going? Will it be Data, The Doctor or something new? Do we need to fear it, embrace it or something in between? 

I see AI heading toward The Doctor and Data, simultaneously. The Doctor shows how AI will eventually evolve in the medical field, while Data should a mobile computer. AI will take both paths, each with specializations. Everything in the medical field has sub-specializations, it makes sense that medical AI will be its own field. Data represents how computers are a bank of information, and can perform calculations very quickly. AI like that can have it's own specialization, and uses. As indicated in the video with Mr. Teerlink, AI can have a wealth of information, but not have any reason to access it without a human command.  I don't believe we need to fear either of these evolutions. They will help our society grow. For now, AI is not sentient, so humans are needed to control function. 

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