Timeline for How do USS Enterprise Crew members receive emails or other forms of personal messages?
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| Mar 27, 2018 at 12:59 | comment | added | Byron Jones | As an email administrator myself, I can assure you that current email systems do absolutely nothing like I described. Currently email systems work by performing a DNS MX record lookup to locate the correct server, and then send it to that server. The server then determines if it accepts for that address. The intelligence I describe in locating people does not currently exist. Your email program might do a smart search of your address book, but that's it. | |
| Mar 27, 2018 at 12:54 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | The mechanism you describe in this answer is precisely what an email address is, and how email works. So calling it "not anything like an email address" doesn't seem quite right :P | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 22:36 | comment | added | Paŭlo Ebermann |
[email protected] looks like an email address.
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| Nov 17, 2016 at 15:25 | comment | added | Byron Jones | @TomTom I never suggested it was magic. What I'm suggesting is that a natural language processing system would search for "star fleet command" first in its own data cache, then reaching out to other data sources, just like DNS does already, but more advanced. It would then pass the message to the nearest receiving server accepting messages for star fleet command. That system would then locate Admiral Nechayev, wherever she is currently assigned, and route the message there. No magic required, and except for the FTL transmission, something already within the realm of development today. | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 15:14 | comment | added | Chro | @AlexanderKosubek It works with my work directory. I don't have to know the person or email address myself for it to be able to find them, I just start typing their name and suggestions come up. And my Microsoft Exchange account is on my phone so it's linked into my contacts app so that when I go to search for contacts they come up as well as my actual contacts who I've saved manually myself. | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 13:52 | comment | added | TomTom | This shows a really interesting failure of basic fundamental logic. You assume it will magically figure out where to send the mail - without even the information where the receiving system is. Magic? I mean, without kowing even which planet to send it, the only way would be to send it to EVERY recipient possible. And while that may work for "Admiral Quagaratagala Joffreysonndswads" (which on earth there may be one), try to send a message to some "John Miller". Bulk mail to possibly million of people? Magic. Sorry. | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 13:49 | comment | added | Byron Jones | @AlexanderKosubek yes,I believe so. I think the advance over current systems is that it doesn't need a user specific address book, and can communicate with remote systems, or even pass the message along and allow the receiving system to figure out the final recipient. Not too different than what we have now. Although I suspect warp drive will be solved before spam. | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 13:46 | comment | added | Byron Jones | @TomTom my apologies for not providing specific, technical details about an interstellar communications protocol that won't be invented for several centuries, using faster than light transmissions which defy our current understanding of physics. | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 10:49 | comment | added | Jörg W Mittag | @AlexanderKosubek: It works, if the person is in my address book, at least. Which they probably would be, since they would be in Star Fleet's address book, and my phone would be subscribed to that. I can send emails to people I have never interacted with at the companies I work for, since my phone's address book is usually synced with the company's. If I just start calling out random names, that won't work, but then again, I usually have some sort of connection with the people I want to contact, either through work, past interactions, personal, business, etc. | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 10:49 | comment | added | TomTom | The answer is irrelevant. This is like saying email addresses do not exist because I Can tell my secretary to send a mail to "joe". Or phone numbers do not exist because of speed dial buttons. The computer will know the person he is talking about including being able to look up addresses. You mix up the act of sending an message (technically) with an advanced voice controlled user interface that hides this fact. The OP obviously is talking about the more technical aspect. | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 10:39 | comment | added | I'm with Monica | @Jörg, does this work if you never had contact with a person before and do not know yourself how to contact them? | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 10:29 | comment | added | Jörg W Mittag | I can do the same thing on my phone, today. | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 3:46 | comment | added | Adamant | Can you provide an example from the show? | |
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| Nov 17, 2016 at 3:33 | history | answered | Byron Jones | CC BY-SA 3.0 |