Of course they did. They had a 20-30 year head start.
Star Trek Discovery in trouble, and a de facto reboot?
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Of course they did. They had a 20-30 year head start.
Technology is always tricky to predict. Just look at the nineties trying to predict the future of music storage. Men in Black had those tiny discs that were going to replace CDs, even Star Trek had Zefram Cochrane listening to his music on some kind of weird transparent green hexagonal disc. No one seemed to predict that the next form of music media would in fact be digital.
That's because none of them consulted any prominent inventors/futurists, people knew about digitalisation of media since the early 1980's, just nobody believed them. Just like people now know that we'll have fully brain-integrated virtual simulations by the mid of this century, but it seems too improbable for most.
People also get used to new tech instantaneously and it seems like it has always been this way and that it's not a big deal.
Well now, there's a non sequitur.
Oh, really? OK, let's see if you agree with this proposition:The hard sci-fi writers of the 1960s nailed more about the world we actually live in now than did the pulp sci-fi and space-opera writers of the 1930s.
If you agree then ask yourself why the above sentence is true.
But then again, vinyl has come back. Who's to say that other retro tech won't as well? Besides, despite the popularity of streaming and digital, I think people are always going to want a hard copy format option (personal preference, extra security of content, convenience, collectability, convention autographing, the like.)
People don't get used to tech instantaneously, though. One of my parents started out in the computer science department with punch cards, but moved to a different field. They are just now getting the basics of navigating the internet with proficiency. Other members of my family who do not use newer tech on a daily basis (phones, computers, etc) and ranging in age from 25 to 55, are not aware of all the newest tech. In fact, one person I know had to research all new components in order to tell someone what type of computer he wanted to build, because he had kept up on newer developments since the last computer he built 10 years ago.
Instantaneous adaptation is not my experience, and I am discovering that for every new or future development, there is a push back against it and reluctance to accept it. That also seems to be increasing due to the large amount of technology that is a part of daily life.
Not saying that technology won't keep developing, because it clearly is continuing on. More to my point is that universal acceptance will vary, and resistance is as much my experience as acceptance.
As a hobby, possibly. But it isn't realistic that tapes would suddenly start being used again on high tech Interstellar vessels, or computers would revert to 1960s designs. There will always be those who enjoy old aesthetics, and Trek's depicted more than one of those people, but we are talking about the technology in use by Starfleet, the scientific and paramilitary elite of the Federation. Their stuff is going to be cutting edge, leave the vinyl and the hipster coffee for their quarters.
Just because they are called tapes doesn't mean that they're actual tapes. After all we still use outdated terms such as hard drives, floppy drives, cellphones, etc.
I think within a generation or two, you'll have that. I don't think people will be referring to recording tech as "tapes" in three-hundred years.
Realistically language would have drifted so much in 300 years that normal conversations would be difficult to follow.
'Hang up' when disconnecting a phone call, 'roll up window' even though they're operated by buttons. These things are common.
I don't believe the show is in trouble. I do believe it will be entertaining for modern audiences. I don't believe it will be anything like TOS or the TNG-era, except on a superficial level. People expecting to be sent back in time to their respective glory days will likely be sorely disappointed.
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Vinyl has come back because audiophiles recognize the greater warmth of an analog format over digital. It's similar with film vs. digital photography or digital moviemaking.
But for what it's worth, the audio quality of vinyl is actually surpassed by reel-to-reel tape. There is a company in my area that is releasing certain classic jazz and orchestral albums on reel-to-reel tape. But they cost about $300 each, making the format a bit out of the price range of the average consumer and thus unlikely to have a similar resurgence.
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One of the new programs I am learning at work still uses a floppy disk icon for saving, despite being a completely custom program.
Until we have replicators
Similarly, a newish project management system I work with also has a floppy disk icon for save
always makes me smile!
A what now? Are those the things Moses obtained the ten commandments on?
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