How come in Star Trek TNG

[rcrush]

The captain was always working on 4 or 5 different computer pads. Those Kindle looking things they always pretend to do work on. There were scenes where Picard has a pile of them on his desk and he's pushing buttons and shit.


If they used those touch screen pads like Kindles to do all their paperwork then wouldnt they just need one pad and download everything they need to it? Riker would always walk into the office and hand him a pad. Couldnt Riker just hit "SEND TO CAPTAIN" on the little pad? Didnt they have WIFI?!?!!

[mojowork_n]

1. Convenience

One pad per job.

Wouldn't it be a lot like having one computer at home, another at the office, a third portable in your briefcase/gym bag, and something even smaller tucked into a flap pocket of that bag. Does anyone download all their work home?

Otherwise, if they would have had an actor playing that role, the Enterprisde TNG Head Geek of I.T. would have used up all his speaking lines bitching about people clogging the network with useless traffic, downloads and chatter. No matter how big or fast the capacity of the system.

[rcrush]

2. I suppose

But the TNG ship computer could do anything apparantly. Creating holographic characters to fuck creating food and items out of thin air. I figure by the 24th century they could build a network that wouldnt crash when sending and downloading spreadsheets.

[mojowork_n]

3. What if the server's really running Windows Millenium-and-a-Half Edition

No, actually I was thinking it would be more of a project management issue. Keep work off of the network until it's almost ready to go, so you don't have conflicting versions of something out there, Once it's officially completed and released, that's it. That way you wouldn't have extra files to archive or track.

[Orsino]

4. Visual necessity.

Riker has to be seen passing info in some high-tech form so that we know the sharing is taking place.