When envisioning the computer on the starship Enterprise, did Gene Roddenberry not fathom computers getting more powerful even as they got smaller?

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answer:In general yes, the original Star Trek expected computers to continue to be large furniture-sized machines, as well as to be capable of exploding when told semi-witty logic problems, as Kirk and Spock managed to do to several otherwise dangerous computer systems. But… your question is somewhat impossible to answer, because the Star Trek ship computer also does things we can’t do yet, and don’t know how to do, such as have enough artificial intelligence to solve very complex new science problems very quickly, often by just talking to them or pressing some buttons for a minute or so. Maybe the Handwavium processors required will turn out to be big, use lots of vacuum tubes, and be subject to suicide when presented with paradoxes. It’s been said though that the computers used by NASA to control a trip to the moon and back, were room-sized, and now could be done with the computers in our “smart” phones. Of course, we’d still need months or research and development by a team of top-rate engineers to really do that, but that computer system had data and speed less than our phones do.

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