User blog comment:Elseweyr/Mass Effect bubble soon punctured?/@comment-7622429-20130727100506/@comment-1440333-20130727111652

Its always a fact that science fiction tends to inspire real-life development in engineering and technology. The works of Arthur C Clarke, Jules Verne, John Wyndham and many others inspired some of the earliest technology, and films and television such as Star Trek are continuing to inspire many others. For example the fliptop designs of most early mobile phones was an admitted inspiration from the Star Trek communicators, and most technology outlined in 2001 A Space Odyssey actually had versions in real life by 2001. Sure we may not find Prothean ruins, but mass accelerator technology is already being worked on, and it wouldnt surprise me with the development of user interfaces if we soon see something like the computers in ME in real life.