LCARS and the iPad
August 5th, 2010
Possibly the geekiest reason ever for a lack of enthusiasm for the iPad:
(Amusingly, my own long-term fear of touchscreens is based on the LCARS displays on Star Trek: TNG. Rather than have the actors learn where all the functions were located they just had them perform contextual actions and fill in the interface in post-production. Dangerously complex machinery with dynamically inconsistent control interfaces. Whenever the ship got torpedoed and the bridge crew fell against their control panels I used to worry they'd end up accidentally ejecting the warp core or something…)
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