Comment on iPadd
Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 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.
ummthatguy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
But who wants to deal with searching through the UI for pertinent info when you can have several PADDs each attuned to a specific set of data?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
They can even have their own special UI! The way they talk about reconfiguring panels makes it seem like you can build your own UI on the fly, especially the time Worf yelled at a dude who put the con controls in the engine room of the defiant and didn’t use the standard layout.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m more amused by Jake writing his stories on a PADD with a stylus, but you see it and it’s all printed text.
TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I get it. I hate typing on mobile devices.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, but you never see the handwriting part. Like he’s writing on it and it’s doing handwriting to text, but the handwriting is not on the screen, which just seems like a bad interface.
samus12345@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In the future, kids learn how to hand-write text that looks printed.
dejected_warp_core@startrek.website 11 months ago
Production reason: without a stylus it looks like he’s reading, not writing. Without one, dialogue like “I’m writing a book” would come across as lying, which can completely change a scene for the worse.
**In-universe lore reason: ** Jake is a romantic and probably feels that the more tactile approach is better for his creative process.
VindictiveJudge@startrek.website 11 months ago
I mean, we’ve still got authors typing up manuscripts on mechanical typewriters and GRRM writing ASOIAF on a DOS computer. Jake wanting to use a pen is possibly one of the least weird things about Trek tech.