Star Trek Technologies (real or fiction)

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do. (Henry Ford)
Shades of Star Trek!
Is it here already?
Star Trek Technology: Real or Fiction?
Multi-spectral communication
That first article reminded me of an old series that introduced new ideas to many of us. In those days they seemed futuristic and very ambitious. The interesting part is that now some of them are becoming realities. The series of pages beginning above explains how to vastly increase the amount of information moving along a single optical fiber. It is explained in fairly basic terms, but the reality is that the means already exists to take a fibreoptic cable and multiply the amount of information passing along it, efficiently separating each signal at the destination point. The idea has been on my site for some years, but is only now being employed by those who require this kind of powerful information system.