@LovableSidekick to ShowerthoughtsEnglish • 4 days agoCalling modern cellphones "phones" is like when old Star Trek called their little plastic data slabs "tapes".message-square69arrow-up1270arrow-down118
arrow-up1252arrow-down1message-squareCalling modern cellphones "phones" is like when old Star Trek called their little plastic data slabs "tapes".@LovableSidekick to ShowerthoughtsEnglish • 4 days agomessage-square69
minus-square@TheTetrapodlink1•3 days agoTo pull terms from a couple different sci-fi book series I like, we could go for Hand Terminals or Scribs. I like both, the former when I’m being grandiose and the latter when I’m feeling cute.
minus-squareERROR: Earth.exe has crashedlinkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-23 days agoHand Terminals imply you no longer have local storage, which wouldn’t describe smartphones today. Also, I hate the idea of a “Hand Terminal” where everything is on the cloud. I mean… spoiler Eros Incident, comms all dead. Screen doesnt even turn on. With actual phones, they could’ve used something like Briar!
To pull terms from a couple different sci-fi book series I like, we could go for Hand Terminals or Scribs. I like both, the former when I’m being grandiose and the latter when I’m feeling cute.
Didn’t we had Personal Digital Assistant before?
Hand Terminals imply you no longer have local storage, which wouldn’t describe smartphones today.
Also, I hate the idea of a “Hand Terminal” where everything is on the cloud. I mean…
spoiler
Eros Incident, comms all dead. Screen doesnt even turn on.
With actual phones, they could’ve used something like Briar!