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The Coming of the 'Holodeck' |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / MEDIA IN REVIEW |
| Author: Robert B. Charles |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1997 |
| Size: 2,058 Words, 14,400 Characters |
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Then came cyberspace and the Internet, in tandem with interactive games.
The day after tomorrow, we may encounter still bolder technologies. Imagine the following:
* Having lifelike holograms of the Royal Ballet dancing in your living room, or touching the fluff on The Lion King, Part II in, say, the year 2005.
* Racing in the Indianapolis 500 at speeds exceeding 200 MPH, with the feel of the car beneath you and the surge of competitors at your elbow.
* Or--for a change--shrinking to the size of a poppy seed and coursing through your own 3--D, audiovisually computer-simulated bloodstream ...
* If your pleasures are simpler, imagine all 155 degrees of your vertical vision and all 185 degrees of your horizontal vision consumed by alpine meadows, the wafting of a light breeze o...
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...Good.
Most of all, we must treasure those experiences that can never be simulated--in a word, life itself. At day's end, media are still media, and virtual reality will ever be only virtual. A warm little hand gripping yours tightly as you make your way into the sunshine is real, and a wonderful day in the ballpark with your son is still, yes, a wonderful day in the ballpark with your son.
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