I'd like my LCARS based GUI supercomputer now please.
I'd agree that for general office work LCARS is probably not optimal but remember that people don't usualy type anymore. I can't remember a single time someone was actually typing on a keyboard.
A lot of the complex tasks are done though contextualized voice commands and anything that must be recorded is just dictated e.g logs, reports.
I think mouse and kb would still be used just not standard just like people in Japan/China are losing the ability to write characters with pen and paper because it is used so little.
I think it would be much less like a mouse and keyboard and much more like an airplane cockpit in that case. Specialized purposes.
The usefulness of a button, switch, knob, what have you that does one thing that you can find by muscle memory without even looking is not to be understated. Not just anyone is going to be piloting a starship. It's going to be someone with years of training, so approachability of the UI is going to be much less important than muscle memory in that case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J57fi-Lic4U
I'd like my LCARS based GUI supercomputer now please.
I'd agree that for general office work LCARS is probably not optimal but remember that people don't usualy type anymore. I can't remember a single time someone was actually typing on a keyboard. A lot of the complex tasks are done though contextualized voice commands and anything that must be recorded is just dictated e.g logs, reports.
I think mouse and kb would still be used just not standard just like people in Japan/China are losing the ability to write characters with pen and paper because it is used so little.
I think it would be much less like a mouse and keyboard and much more like an airplane cockpit in that case. Specialized purposes.
The usefulness of a button, switch, knob, what have you that does one thing that you can find by muscle memory without even looking is not to be understated. Not just anyone is going to be piloting a starship. It's going to be someone with years of training, so approachability of the UI is going to be much less important than muscle memory in that case.