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Comment Re: Bad ideas that just won't go away (Score 4, Insightful) 148

The computing interfaces on Star Trek were designed to work well for the audience watching them, which meant they had to make clear the information they needed to know (which wasn't necessary the information the putative users needed to know) and "usability" was a nonfactor. They worked well for that, but trying to use them as an actual user interface is indeed a bad idea.

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