Comment by Izkata
12 days ago
People sometimes mock how in Star Trek they'd occasionally have a bunch of PADDs splayed out on a table, almost using the futuristic tablets as if they were clipboards instead of how someone might use a real computer or tablet.
Then we get projects like this, which I see as a step towards that future.
I don't know why someone would mock that in the first place. Surely a starship with a built in matter replicator would use as many tablets as they found convenient.
Owning like six iPads wouldn't be a good use of the resources that would represent for me, personally. But I could do useful things with them, and if I could politely request a magic box to give me one, I'd have at least six around already.
Couldn't you make the same argument that any of us on this forum using more than 1 monitor at our desk, doesn't really understand the benefits of our technology and are using our monitors like 19th century chalk boards?