Whereas I agree that a lot of 'TV' (not only scifi) user interfaces are nonsense (For example, in CSI, why do they show random fingerprints and photos while que

Whereas I agree that a lot of 'TV' (not only scifi) user interfaces are nonsense (For example, in CSI, why do they show random fingerprints and photos while querying the database?), a lot of ideas from science fiction have been used for actual technology. It can be good ideas, or bad ideas, but you cannot say in general that they are bad or 'downright suicidal'... Only as soon as the technology makes it possible to actually execute the ideas, we can test whether they make sense or not... (Don't forget the Minority Report style interfaces that 'everyone' seems to want these days) (BTW: I wonder why the post in this topic by Hov, which mentions that tablets look a lot like the devices used in Star Trek, is killed?)