Desktops: The Next Generation
You can't tell me that the engineers who developed the first tablet PC weren't thinking of Captain Kirk's attractive blonde yeoman, Janice Rand, when they were designing it.
Part of the set design in the later Star Trek series introduced the concept of "digital wallpaper." The idea was that it was a touch-based user interface for the ship's computer. In actuality, according to staff involved in the series, it was a series of video displays that threw up random graphics and text, such as the
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