July 21st, 2005
Scotty would have been a VoIP user
He was an engineer, a communicator, the ultimate space-faring IT manager.
And he knew a few things about workarounds, right?
StarTrek communicators would have used VoIP.
Those same communicators would have been VoIP-enabled for ship to surface communications- and planets colonized by the Federation would have had VoIP-enabled WiMax.
Which they will.
Fare thee well, Jimmy Doohan/Scotty. You nurtured generations of techies. Including me.
Russell Shaw is an enterprise computing journalist, analyst and author based in Portland, Oregon. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
