I pose a question for the Original fans

[Navigator_NCC2120]

Row 1, flip phone: it's a lid/antenna, not a display
Row 2, tablet display: see 2001 A Space Odyssey in 1968
Row 3 split screen video conference: mmmmmaybe
Row 4, eyepiece: The Last Starfighter had those in 1986

- That's correct about 2001's intentions, but it was easy to miss in the movie because the astronauts never picked them up. I mistook them for monitors mounted in the tabletop, that could swivel a few degrees left and right.

- Ah, Row 3 is about split screen conferencing. I thought it was just about flat screens. I withdraw my prior comment on that one.

Here is a picture of Dave Bowman climbing down the ladder in the centrifuge with his rectangular pad in his hand, only Frank Poole's pad is on the table at this point, not Dave's pad. Dave puts his pad down on the table near Frank and walks away to get his food, then he walks back to the table to watch the BBC News broadcast on his rectangular pad while he is eating, just like Frank is doing.

Here is a picture of Dave getting his food, Dave's pad is on the table near Frank at this point, Frank's pad is on the table too.



Navigator NCC-2120, USS Entente
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[Hatshepsut]

...[In] Joe Rogan interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson who says at around 42:35 that the idea of distributed computing like we have now days, that idea had not been thought of by "2001 a Space Odyssey" which came out in 1968.

By 1969 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency had set up ARPANET, the communications network for computers that would become the Internet. But research, development, and prototyping at MIT and other institutions had already been going on for over 10 years by then. The concept of distributed computing, i.e. sharing a computational task's workload among more than one processor, long predates the invention of digital computers, however.

Consider at Los Alamos in 1944 when Richard Feynman and others did their nuclear fission calculations with decks of Hollerith cards collated and run through clunky tabulating machines in a huge room by an army of pretty young women known as "computers."

That's distributed computing where the processors are girls!

 

[1100 Jason 1001]

There's also no mass market entertainment that I can see, no TV networks or news channels outside of the one scene in Generations where Kirk is interviewed by "the press". The Trek universe just has certain cultural omissions like this.

On this small point: Star Trek V appears to show a news channel playing on the bridge of Klaa's ship, reporting on the Nimbus III hostage situation.

 

[Christopher]

DS9 sometimes mentioned the Federation News Service, for which Jake Sisko reported during the Dominion War.

 

[ToddPence]

The commlock with that mini CRT display was pretty cutting-edge for 1973. But then Helena used to use a typewriter to write her reports..a typewriter...

Hey, I was still using a typewriter as late as 1995.

 

[Keith1701]

Let's be honest. A modern-day smartphone is more high-tech than a TOS communicator.

Then again, we don't transporter beams or warp drives yet.

This is true of course.....

 

[johnnybear]

I still use one now! Electric though it is....
JB