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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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3 May 2004 - 9:56 pm
The most impressive thing about the future as represented by Star Trek is the fact that humans have greatly increased cognitive abilities. A case in point. In Star Trek: Nemesis Captain Picard uses a nine key keyboard of unlabeled buttons to send an encrypted, text message to one of the other stations on the bridge. This impressed me quite a bit. I have enough trouble using 26 keys to represent 26 letters, so I can't imagine using nine and remembering all the combinations necessary to generate 26 letters. Plus, this is a society that relies heavily on voice recognition, and we rarely (and I mean very rarely) see Picard use the keys on his command chair. So I'm assuming he doesn't get much practice with them. But during the heat of battle he had no trouble remembering how to use them. And they're unlabeled, so he can't even peek at the keys as he types. It's nice to know that in future not only does everyone look like a movie star, but they have the minds of geniuses.
Posted by on 3 May 2004 at 9:56 PM
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How ironic that we were looking at that all day in the lab yesterday.....so catchy....
Posted by James on 4 May 2004 - 9:24 AM