Trek Keyboards

[Mytran]

For those who don't know about Spock waving, see http://startrekhistory.com/cagepage.html and cycle through the "Additional Scenes And Film Elements" about halfway down the page.

 

[Robert Comsol]

^^ I see, he was signalling the female bridge officer to change the picture but I can't help the feeling she should be visible in this screencap.

It would appear to be some kind of misunderstanding, that inspired Gary Mitchell's similar action in "Where No Man Has Gone Before" - probably nobody told the director of the second pilot how to correctly interpret Spock's gesture in "The Cage".

After that they fixed it - unfortunately...

Bob

 

[F. King Daniel]

For what it's worth, QWERTY lives on in the alternate reality!

 

[B.J.]

Unfortunately, they split the keys in the wrong place!

 

[Johnny]

I think for a specific set of commands, such as showing a list of local starbases; in the same way you would select a menu option in word to create a mail merge then the idea of a console with a set of function buttons becomes useful. As soon as you're in a program with a specific function, then toolbar shortcuts can become your new keyboard.

Current computers serve more than one purpose, where a star trek terminal has a specific requirement. Also, the data on this planet isn't organised in a well enough fashion that we can provide a single form of interacting with it with what amounts to shortcuts.

As soon as information becomes uniformly organised (and the extremely unlikely concept that a computer has a requirement for a single set of tasks ) then we'll start seeing changes on a commercial scale.

But I still dain't think it'll happen...

 

[scotpens]

For what it's worth, QWERTY lives on in the alternate reality!

And that's a picture of . . . WHAT, exactly?

 

[F. King Daniel]

The centre part of a bridge perimeter station on the Enterprise.

 

[Shawnster]

I've cited a very convincing example just two posts above yours.

You misunderstand - I wanted to postulate a hypothetical situation where voice recognition (or, say, telepathic recognition) works with absolute perfection, come hell or high water or the noises of a newsroom. It now perfectly takes your dictation. What then?

Then we have fifteen people talking at the same time in the same tiny room, while trying to concentrate just enough to write complex articles, which by the way is not easy to do when you have to dictate them. It's not a matter of technology. It's a matter of being able to think.

I don't want the girl sitting next to me to know that I'm googling her. Or that I'm looking at pr0n. Or that I want to input to the computer while talking to someone else.

Im sure I can think of other instances when I'd want to type as opposed to voice input.

 

[Manticore]

You misunderstand - I wanted to postulate a hypothetical situation where voice recognition (or, say, telepathic recognition) works with absolute perfection, come hell or high water or the noises of a newsroom. It now perfectly takes your dictation. What then?

Then we have fifteen people talking at the same time in the same tiny room, while trying to concentrate just enough to write complex articles, which by the way is not easy to do when you have to dictate them. It's not a matter of technology. It's a matter of being able to think.

I don't want the girl sitting next to me to know that I'm googling her. Or that I'm looking at pr0n. Or that I want to input to the computer while talking to someone else.

Im sure I can think of other instances when I'd want to type as opposed to voice input.

"Computer, Google that hot girl sitting three feet from me!"
*slap*
"Computer, Google remedies for cheek pain from slapping."

 

[Robert Comsol]

Just noticed a detail about a supposedly advanced alien civilization (by TOS standards):

http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/2x26hd/assignmentearthhd1282.jpg

Bob

 

[F. King Daniel]

Emoticons have their own buttons!

 

[Saturn0660]

Unfortunately, they split the keys in the wrong place!

What makes you say that? Just because where you like your keyboard split doesn't mean thats the best place for it in a few hundred years.

 

[B.J.]

Unfortunately, they split the keys in the wrong place!

What makes you say that? Just because where you like your keyboard split doesn't mean thats the best place for it in a few hundred years.

If they're using a QWERTY keyboard, then they type the same way I do.

 

[Third Nacelle]

I just want to know how they seem to get out 100 WAM on a PADD with two or three buttons.

 

[Timo]

(It's good at guessing, and the user merely okays his choices?)

Timo Saloniemi

 

[robau]

So a super predictive text function.

 

[R. Star]

I just want to know how they seem to get out 100 WAM on a PADD with two or three buttons.

Figure that one out and I'll consider trading in my keyboard. Until then, it's the most productive way to articulate one's self in text.

 

[publiusr]

One of the problems with running everything off desktops is the death of control panels. If I had the money, I would love to scour junkyards for as many toggles and dials and buttons as I could find.

 

[T J]

Just noticed a detail about a supposedly advanced alien civilization (by TOS standards):

http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/2x26hd/assignmentearthhd1282.jpg

Bob

Hummm, maybe they are so advanced they have clunky buttons purely for nostalgia... It worked for Tom Paris.

Oh god, did I just reference Voyager?!

 

[F. King Daniel]

It seems there was a QWERTY in the TNG engine room all along!
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/observations/peakperformance.htm
(it's about halfway down)