OK, so here’s a puzzler.<\/p>\n
Microsoft comes out with an extremely cool new device — the HoloLens — and then in their announcement they falsely describe it as a device for looking at holograms.<\/p>\n
In fact, the HoloLens, as wonderful as it is, does not show you holograms. It doesn’t involve holography at all. Just to make sure, I asked somebody very high up on their technology team about this, and he confirmed the obvious.<\/p>\n
What’s even stranger is that none of the major newspapers — not the New York Times, not the Washington Post, none of them — have pointed this out. They have all just repeated the obviously false assertion that this is a device for looking at holograms.<\/p>\n
Why is it that in technology you are allowed to say any nutty thing you want, and nobody calls you on it? This generally does not happen in other sectors.<\/p>\n
For example, if Paramount Pictures had opened Selma<\/i> by saying “Martin Luther King was the leading figure in the struggle for the rights of Italian Americans”, would all the papers just have printed that?<\/p>\n
I’m guessing that somebody, somewhere, would have called them on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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