[jonskowitz]

 

Whatever.  I find it slightly annoying that every SciFi setting always seems to become showcases for some future Sears catalogues instead of an actual storyline.

  Science fiction can be so much more than gadgets...

[Setekh]

Oh! Oh! MMI!  

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by Carl:
they are already redisigning keyboards all the time, and they are already developing interfaces better than keyboards, so in 50 years they will be obsolete let alone 300. you don't seem to realize how fast tech is improving. look at the first keyboards for type writers, now look at the new ones. then take into account that technology is advancing on a curve. now extrapalate 300 years. yeah, like i said, no keyboards for bosch.

They make new designs, that's about all (oh, yes, they added the windows keys, yepee!!!). Ok, about all your new interfaces: there's already been some attempts (virtual helmets -whatever you call it-, that glove thing, thre's alraedy voice recognition, and so on). What has worked? nothing   Lookn even -insert right word here- like the psx2 or the dreamcast have the possibility to use keyboard now. for you, is it a step backward? It's not because something is new that it's better And neural interface... the GTA doesn't seem that advanced to use those kind of sci-fie delirium.
Bah, anyway, I don't want this to go into an argument, so never mind.

[Fineus]

Isn't it weird that keyboards basically have everything you need in a relativly compact space though? I don't see how any device controlled by hand could do what it does more efficiently...

[Jabu]

 

Originally posted by Setekh:
Oh! Oh! MMI!  

*BLEEP*

*engaging subconcious Alpha Centauri Obsession Subroutine*

"The warrior's bland acronym..."

[Bishop Gantry]

Id feel freakin strange if I keep talking to my computer

ME: Computer open adobe pohotoshop

PC: Did you say potatoes?

ME: Stupid F&/% computer

PC: fine be that way *PC posts embarrising moments when you where crossdreassing like a shivan*

Neural interface higly unlikley
Voice interface higly unlikley

Keyboard interface LIKELY to stay F4eva

[Vertigo1]

What about the tactile interfaces the Taelons use.  

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[Martinus]

Interesting technology in its infancy that might end up giving you no physical controls at all:
 http://www.sfu.ca/mediapr/sfnews/1998/Nov19/brain.html

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[Grey Wolf]

I personally like the Star Trek system, all it needs are better colors, like maybe in shades of dark green or blue. It can function like a keyboard or a touchscreen computer.

[Carl]

you guys, do you really REALLY think that keyboards are still gonna be around 300 years form now? i find the idea ridiculous. why enter commands by pushing buttons when you could simply think "i want coffee" and the replicator makes you coffee! sure the keyboard is a very good interface and it will be use for a long time, but come on! 300 years is a very long time, especially in computer terms. technology is always so much more efficent then we think it's gonna be. in 1966 the epitome of computer interface is Captain Kirk[TM] pushing big red buttons that put the ship on self destruct. the 60's audiance thought "oooow! a big red button! groovy!" but now if we saw Captain Janeway[TM] flipping switches and turning dials on the U.S.S. Voyager we would laugh. simmilarly in 2066 on Star Trek: the next next generation, our grand-children would roll their eyes if they saw Captain Picard VI[TM] pressing touch screen buttons on an LCARS screen. They would see it the same way we see Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers flying around in their little rocket ships with sparks flying out the back firing white cartoon destructo beams. they would then get up and play a nice game of Freespace3 (on their "100 gaming classics" file they bought at Comp GTA for 5 credits) on their matrix-like brain plug-in world. if you gave one of those kids a keyboard he would turn stick it on his head and wonder why it doesn't work.

[Martinus]

I did a little more reading on the brainwave detector.
The cool thing about "think" technology is that on and off are simply concepts so even if you speak spanish or italian or chinese on and off remain the same! Very nifty  

I always thought that Denise and Michael Okuda's interface work (most interfaces you see in ST) was very pleasing to the eye.

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[^Graff]

Ever read 3001 by Arthur C. Clarke?  In that people send messages by thought, and it's really buggy.  Everything that the person thinks is written down in the message, and most of it ends up being gibberish.  Thought guided writing seems ludicrous to me.

[aldo_14]

A 20th century 300 years in the future... imigine the amount of sticky bits and crisps left in-between the keys....

[Mad Bomber]

 

Originally posted by Jabu:
*BLEEP*

*engaging subconcious Alpha Centauri Obsession Subroutine*

"We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being fooled at any particular time? Or even all the time? Might i just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on such solepcism(sp)?"

     --Project Pirro, Vat 46, Specimen 37.
     --Immediate termination of specimen advised.

[Vertigo1]

 

Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009:
I personally like the Star Trek system, all it needs are better colors, like maybe in shades of dark green or blue. It can function like a keyboard or a touchscreen computer.

(see: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Star Trek: Generations.  Enterprise and Excelsior consoles.  Nuff said.)

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[Eishtmo]

 

Originally posted by ^Graff:
Ever read 3001 by Arthur C. Clarke?

Yes, I didn't like it.  The first one was great, and it went downhill from there.  3001 was the worst in my opinion.  Especially that neural interface.  Yuck!  Who would want to be bald for life!

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[^Graff]

I didn't really like it either, it's just that I remember how screwed up the interface was.

[Carl]

 

Originally posted by ^Graff:
Ever read 3001 by Arthur C. Clarke?  In that people send messages by thought, and it's really buggy.  Everything that the person thinks is written down in the message, and most of it ends up being gibberish.  Thought guided writing seems ludicrous to me.

yeah uhh there is one thing wrong with that. if you can communicate through thought, then you should be able to only send the messages you want to send because choosing is part of thought.

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by Carl:
yeah uhh there is one thing wrong with that. if you can communicate through thought, then you should be able to only send the messages you want to send because choosing is part of thought.

Really? Did you never had a music in your head, whatever you do, you can't stop that music to play in your mind? You know, that f*cking music your little brother listens all day long and ... and...
Anyway, imagine, you try to "think" something to your comp, and what appears? Lyrics  

[Setekh]

We always think in words. But my mum, who has lived in Australia for 20 years, still finds herself thinking in Chinese. It's quite different...