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Thread #69276 Message #1173557
Posted By: Clinton Hammond
28-Apr-04 - 06:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: Was the internet ever predicted
Subject: RE: BS: Was the internet ever predicted
"Star Trek. That show completely failed to predict the internet"
Not quite... they were constantly accessing the Star Fleet DataBase over sub-space... They just didn't talk about it directly much...
Or the store-house of knowledge at Memory Alpha (Once Lt. Mira Romaine rebuilds it after "The Lights Of Zetar") Same thing there... A repository of knowledge to be accessed at a distance...
Or at the very least, inner-ship communication is more or less a networking of work-stations... All tied through the central computer...