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How Star Trek Artists Imagined the iPad... 23 Years Later
MorderVonAllem submitted an incredibly cool article about the computers and set design of Star Trek. If you are into that sort of thing, you're going to really like this one. It says "There are a lot of similarities between Apple's iPad and the mobile computing devices—known as PADDs—used in the Star Trek universe. Ars spoke to designers Michael Okuda, Denise Okuda, and Doug Drexler to find out the thinking and inspiration behind the PADD and how closely the iPad represents a real-life incarnation of that dream."
I haven't removed apple section from my preferences to see the shitfest spreading into other sections. Please keep apple stories in Apple section.
Seriously. I removed the Apple section from my mainpage for a reason slashdot. Don't sneak this shit in under other sections, keep it where I can quarantine it.
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I didn't say Apple claimed it. *I* claim it. Both Apple and Microsoft have rewritten history to make it sound like they've invented the computer (along with the original IBM PC). I was talking to a college-aged guy the other day, and he said he had no idea there were other computers like Tandy, Atari, Commodore, or Texas Instruments. He thought it was always just Apple v. Microsoft.
Similarly a lot of people today look at my MP3 player and say, "Why are using that cheap iPod knockoff? Get the real thing." They think iPod was the inventor of MP3 players. VERY effective marketing on Apple's part.
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