Poor Mr. Spock. Forced to interface with the Enterprise’s lame non-interwebbed ‘puter… Why the lameness? Physicist Laurence Krause explains, revealing why SF authors & scriptwriters are chained to the past just like every other meat-bag non-prophetic mortal. Totally common sense-ical for those of us who fritter away our time thinkin’ about this sorta thing, but worth a jump over to Slate to check it out (if only for the bit about Mark Twain’s vaguely prescient take on social-media-video-phonic gossip-mongering.)
