Googlers Obsessed with Star Trek Build a Wearable Communicator to Speak with the Enterprise Computer

So ?#?Google? is developing a "com badge" like you see in the picture. So at first you think "Oh, communicating with other people without the phone, like in Star Trek". Maybe. And if so, they are not the first to develop such a device, as Orion Labs are doing it for quite some time now (I wrote about it here). But it would actually be more like "Google Now" on a shirt, to explore the future of search.

A Time article suggests its "the biggest shift since its founding", since search goes from typing on a desktop, to a laptop, to a phone, to a voice, to the shirt. You wear the interface and search. and ?#?StarTrek? is there again at https://time.com/google-now/ because they are always there. And so many times its been posted here, that Googlers are obsessed with Star Trek, and in particular the Enterprise Computer which you just speak to, and it gives you an answer, one answer, the answer, not a list of possible answers. An answer. That's what they want. "There’s suddenly an expectation that Google will not only hear and understand every word we say, but also that it will respond in a natural, concise way, like another person would."

Now Rick Sternbach, who actually designed the Star Trek communicator for TV (the one worn on the chest on the left side) circa 1986, posted (on Facebook https://on.fb.me/1PKs6er) that after designing a few "sketches of handheld and wrist gizmos" Gene Roddenberry asked him "Why not just make it the Starfleet emblem?", and that's basically how we got to expect to speak to the air, using a connected ?#?wearable? device and get a response, from something, or better yet, somebody.