Cleaning The Bridge In The 24th Century

Cleaning The Bridge In The 24th Century

2014-03-20 20:23 | Comments: 2

Have you wondered how the Enterprise is cleaned in the 24th century? Three possible solutions for eliminating housework by automation.

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Cleaning the bridge in the 24th century @ Destination Star Trek Germany

Is this a male cleaning android operating a vacuum cleaner on the Enterprise D bridge?

Hi, a funny moment at the Destination Star Trek convention was watching how the Enterprise D bridge was cleaned :P Cleaning the ship is something we do not normally see in sci-fi movies. But why is this so? Have we finally got rid of household chores in the 24th century?

I strongly believe that automation will finally eliminate manual housework as well. The question of how to get men to do the housework will shift to how to get robots to do the housework in the not so distant future ;) Here are three possible solutions for achieving a sparkling clean household without arguing with your partner:

1. Dedicated automated cleaning robots

The first scenario is to automate the cleaning chores by a number of dedicated cleaning machines or robots which are optimized for a single task only such as washing the dishes or cleaning the floor. Such machinery already exist in some form today. The former are called dishwashers, the latter could be automated self-running vacuum cleaners like the home robots offered by iRobot for example.

2. General-purpose personal androids

The next step will be to have general-purpose robots or personal androids at home that look like humans and are capable of doing a number of different tasks such as assisting in the kitchen or cleaning the household for us. Sounds creepy, doesn't it? But if we can get used to Data, why not get used to a cleaning android as well?

3. Self-cleaning floors and surfaces

The third solution is to integrate the cleaning function right into the structure. This starts from building anti-dirt coated surfaces and goes to integrating some cleaning mechanism right into the building.

Of course above solutions complement each other and can depend on the requirements and properties of the area which has to be cleaned.

USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D bridge @ Destination Star Trek Germany

Replica of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D bridge @ Destination Star Trek

Cleaning the bridge in the 21st century @ Destination Star Trek Germany

Cleaning the bridge in the 21st century @ Destination Star Trek :P

How do you think will the future of housework look like? Who (or what) will do our chores? When will manual housework become history?

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Kazumi-Poesje on 2015-04-02 12:12

Mijn skipke.

Henk van der Zee on 2015-04-02 12:16

Haha. Min woanskip.

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