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And we can thank Star Trek for floppy disks
LJK — (archived)

Remember in the original Star Trek series when Spock would take flat squares full of data and load them into his science computer on the bridge? That design partially inspired the creation of floppy disks, which now ironically are on the way out, centuries before they would come into vogue on the USS Enterprise.

I also read that the US Navy was interested in the bridge design of our favorite fictional starship as well. All this came from Roddenberry's insistence that the Enterprise have a "realistic" feel and look about it, not just being some V2 rocket with panels full of blinking lights.

Of course they were wrong about starships being full of messy, illogical, expensive to maintain carbon units, but I guess that had something to do with needing actors.

For those interested in how real starships will likely be someday:

http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/MatrioshkaBrains/index.html

http://www.centauri-dreams.org/

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