Software for One: My Star Trek Computer [Built by AI Agents]

Michael Okuda designed Star Trek’s LCARS screens. In an interview with Adam Savage, he tells how Marina Sirtis found the bridge’s control panels intimidating on the first day of filming. His answer to her: the panels are software-defined, based on your user profile, so the button you hit is always the correct one. I’ve been exploring that idea with a journal app of my own. It has a crew of AI agents, and when I want something changed, I tell them and they change the software itself.