When they made star trek we didn't realize touch screens are without a doubt the worst way to control a computer while sitting down. We only put up with them because they let us have smaller devices in our pockets.
I'd like my LCARS based GUI supercomputer now please.
I'd agree that for general office work LCARS is probably not optimal but remember that people don't usualy type anymore. I can't remember a single time someone was actually typing on a keyboard.
A lot of the complex tasks are done though contextualized voice commands and anything that must be recorded is just dictated e.g logs, reports.
I think mouse and kb would still be used just not standard just like people in Japan/China are losing the ability to write characters with pen and paper because it is used so little.
I think it would be much less like a mouse and keyboard and much more like an airplane cockpit in that case. Specialized purposes.
The usefulness of a button, switch, knob, what have you that does one thing that you can find by muscle memory without even looking is not to be understated. Not just anyone is going to be piloting a starship. It's going to be someone with years of training, so approachability of the UI is going to be much less important than muscle memory in that case.
When they made star trek we didn't realize touch screens are without a doubt the worst way to control a computer while sitting down. We only put up with them because they let us have smaller devices in our pockets.
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I've got a touchscreen at a workplace where i'm always standing and i end up using the mouse 90% of the time because touchscreens are just kinda shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J57fi-Lic4U
I'd like my LCARS based GUI supercomputer now please.
I'd agree that for general office work LCARS is probably not optimal but remember that people don't usualy type anymore. I can't remember a single time someone was actually typing on a keyboard. A lot of the complex tasks are done though contextualized voice commands and anything that must be recorded is just dictated e.g logs, reports.
I think mouse and kb would still be used just not standard just like people in Japan/China are losing the ability to write characters with pen and paper because it is used so little.
I think it would be much less like a mouse and keyboard and much more like an airplane cockpit in that case. Specialized purposes.
The usefulness of a button, switch, knob, what have you that does one thing that you can find by muscle memory without even looking is not to be understated. Not just anyone is going to be piloting a starship. It's going to be someone with years of training, so approachability of the UI is going to be much less important than muscle memory in that case.