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Beyond 'Star Trek'

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From the intersection of computational science and technological speculation, with boundaries limited only by our ability to imagine what could be.

On a mission to boldly go where no man has gone before, the series and movies somehow missed some promising technologies ...

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              cover image Communications of the ACM
              Communications of the ACM  Volume 60, Issue 5
              May 2017
              101 pages
              ISSN:0001-0782
              EISSN:1557-7317
              DOI:10.1145/3084186
              • Editor:
              • Moshe Y. Vardi
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