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Star Trek–ish
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en Alison Culliford Night+Day Paris Cool Cities Pulse Guides 2006 59 0-9766013-8-9 The glass doors open and you are greeted by a walkie-talkie–carrying personal assistant in a Star Trek–ish designer black tracksuit who whisks you to a pod seating booth in the bar.
en w:David Foster Wallace McCain’s Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking About Hope Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company 2008 978-0-316-04094-5 What’s hazardous about Bullshit 1’s lavatory door is that it opens and closes laterally, sliding with a Star Trek–ish whoosh at the light touch of the DOOR button just inside—i.e., you go in, lightly push DOOR to close, attend to business, lightly push DOOR again to open:
en David Allen Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life Hachette Digital 2010 978-0-748-12398-8 For instance, when the Star Trek–ish computer is finally invented that recognizes your voice in all of your common environments, is easily programmable, and is managed by you with vocal commands, you will simply say out loud: “Computer!”
en Thomas W. Paradis Living the Palio: A Story of Community and Public Life in Siena, Italy w:iUniverse 2014 51 978-1-4917-5289-0 Today some two-thirds of Sienese live outside the city walls in what we would consider suburban neighborhoods—what some locals dub the “neutral zone” (sounds seriously Star Trek–ish if you ask me).
en w:Patricia Briggs Silence Fallen New York, N.Y. Ace 2017 14 9780425281277 “We like the term ‘neutral zone’ better than ‘safe zone,’” I told him. “It sounds less judgmental and more businesslike.” Also more Star Trek–ish.
en Robert Carr Corby Falls Mosaic Press 2021 9781771615204 The lighting was discreet, indirect, Star Trek–ish.
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