Wishing upon a Star Trek vision

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Fictional computers featured in Star Trek have served as the benchmark for computer engineers everywhere. They are easy to deal with and can understand natural language. So why are their real-life counterparts still so far behind? asks Colin Barker.

There is a magical moment in the film Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home when the crew of the Starship Enterprise find themselves in the 20th century and Scotty is confronted with a 20th century compute...

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