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Yeah. This is the "extrapolate one technology, ignore everything else and base your future on that" syndrome. Star Trek did that with spaceships and AI. You ca

by cryptoz 14y ago

Yeah. This is the "extrapolate one technology, ignore everything else and base your future on that" syndrome. Star Trek did that with spaceships and AI. You can explore the galaxy way past lightspeed, but your computer can't put up the shields to save your life unless your captain yells "Shields!". Right.

marshray 14y ago
I think the captain even had to yell "Shields up".
krapp 14y ago
To be fair (and a pedant) that was for the sake of melodrama. The computers exploded in a shower of sparks during battle for the same reason. Rule of cool.