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[[File:Ghost in the Shell Type MPost13506.jpg|link=Ghost in the Shell|frame|When developers won't bother to do it right as long as the end user can live with it.]]
 
{{quote|''You would think that the marriage of biology and machinery would make it possible to do those things without lifting a finger. But instead, we see a drone amble over to a pylon, and do precisely that -- lift a finger. It presses a single button, then wanders off to push another button. So much for Borg efficiency.''
 
{{quote|''You would think that the marriage of biology and machinery would make it possible to do those things without lifting a finger. But instead, we see a drone amble over to a pylon, and do precisely that -- lift a finger. It presses a single button, then wanders off to push another button. So much for Borg efficiency.''|'''[[Recap/Star Trek Voyager|Jim Wright's]] ''[[Voyager]]'' reviews, "Dark Frontier".'''}}
 
You see this all the time; robots (usually the [[Robot Buddy]]) or [[Hollywood Cyborg|cyborgs]] using controls just like people do. That is; hitting buttons.
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== Anime and Manga ==
 
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** Marvin sometimes uses vocal commands. In the TV version he opens the black spaceship's airlock by saying "Abracadiodularservosystems". It would be hard to judge whether he would find a plug in or voice control easier. He'd certainly be depressed by either option.
** It's for the ship's sake. It would kill itself if it directly connected to Marvin.
* Averted in ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined(2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'', when Athena wires directly into the ship to stop the virus...which raises the question of [[Voodoo Shark|how the hell the Cylons are identical to humans if they have COMPUTER''computer PARTSparts INSIDEinside THEIRtheir ARMSarms!'']]
** The Cylons sometimes choose to play this straight, but usually in situations when they're pretending to be human {{spoiler|(such was the computers with keyboards on the hospital on Caprica where Starbuck was held by Simon)}}.
** Similarly averted by the control mechanisms of Cylon baseships, which are neural links created by sticking your hand in goo. Humans are never shown doing this, implying that it (like the wire-in-the-arm above) is a unique aspect of Cylon physiology. [[Hand Wave|Presumably they have very unusual control over the electrical pulses of their nervous system.]]
*** These are optical/fiber optic interfaces rather than electrical. Cylons have some kind of bioluminescence (especially before glowing-spine-sex was [[Retcon]]ned out).
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