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shadowsword87 posted...

It sounds like someone hasn't lived the multi-pad lifestyle.
It's like dual monitors for your desk.

You obviously get my point though. A sword cleaving an orc in twain is never "cringe worthy". Watching Picard struggle to carry 2 dozen "tablets" to his desk to perform a simple administrative task is hard to look at when I'm literally sitting within 3 feet of 2 cellphones, a tablet, a Chromebook, a laptop, and a desktop and all of them are more than capable of multitasking whilst light speed or multiple factors of lightspeed still elude us completely.

It's sort of ironic how badly a lot of elements of sci-fi age so poorly given Clarke's great quote about "any sufficiently advanced technology being indistinguishable from magic" when some of the absolute units of sci-fi have anachronistic tech whereas things like airships in fantasy can just be handwaved as "magitech".