HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) was given what might perhaps be a dream job: to come up with the technology used in the latest Star Trek movie, Star Trek Beyond. Based on present day tech, or technology that is likely to emerge or advance in a not too distant future, HPE said it would “boldly go where no man has gone before” to bring us some dazzling tech predictions that will be seen in the new film – in theaters July 22^nd.

In a press release HPE explained that working with Paramount Pictures Corp. on the project took several months and consisted of various “creative minds” including  researchers and engineers to industrial designers and UX specialists, that worked on three conceptual technologies for the new movie. All these technologies were based on HPE’s research project The Machine –a work in progress.

In short, here’s how HPE described The Machine:

A computer with hundreds of petabytes of fast memory that remembers everything about your history, helps inform real time situational decisions, and enables you to predict, prevent, and respond to whatever the future brings.

HPE described how The Machine and tech 250 years from now are very closely related: “The Machine is poised to leave behind sixty years of technological compromises and inefficiencies, reinventing the fundamental architecture on which all computing is currently based – from smart phones to data centers to super computers. It aims to enable a leap in performance and efficiency, while lowering costs and improving security.”

The company also points out that the technology today could hardly have been conceivable to most people back in the 1950s, so getting the next 50 years might be difficult, but when given 250 years, HPE and the production team at Star Trek got quite creative.

HPE is giving nothing away, however, concerning what these technologies might look like. The company did say that there are three technological concepts:  the quarantine, the diagnostic wrap, and the book. Such technologies are a vision, said HPE, but are also “rooted in developments we hope to introduce much sooner.”

You can follow HPE’s thoughts on the present, and the future, at this year’s Discover conference, live from Las Vegas and brought to you by The Cube.

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