• DangerousK@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    Engineering - Apple iPad

    Security - GNU/Hurd Mobile Flatscreen

    Medical - MS Surface TNG

    10 Front - Samsung FuchsiaPad

    And none of them are interoperable. Did you really think they would solve that in the future?

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    11 months ago

    Like all predictions about future technology, Star Trek was both right and way off.

    Padds are almost used like portable storage devices. Want to give someone a book? Load it onto a padd for them.

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    11 months ago

    Never forget Voyager, where Torres could invent a brand new method of transporter lock and implement it on-the-fly all through a console on the bridge, but even the bio-neural gel packs weren’t smart enough to get a power requisition down to the bottom decks without someone putting it into a padd and physically walking it down there.