> On Sep 8, 2016, at 1:38 PM, Chuck Guzis <ccl...@sydex.com> wrote: > > On 09/08/2016 10:25 AM, Peter Cetinski wrote: > >> A few examples are the PADD (iPad and other tablets) and the >> Communicator (Mobile Phones). > > Maybe, but the computer "brain" IIRC was always shipboard. Dick Tracy > had the 2-way wrist radio decades before. >
That reminds me of another one. Amazon's Alexa and Appleās Siri are not quite there yet but are very similar to the voice-interactive main computer from the Enterprise.