Suppose technology were not the limiting factor. What then would we actually end up with as a “holodeck”?<\/p>\n
Would it be like the vision we saw in 1987 in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/i>? Or would it be radically different?<\/p>\n
If we could enable anything<\/i>, will people want to have the sense that their physical being is transported into another world? That very literal vision is both comforting and limiting.<\/p>\n
Or might it be more like Ready Player One<\/i>, where you are transformed into a being with great powers that make sense only in a virtual world?<\/p>\n
Or will we split the difference? The Matrix<\/i> posits a virtual world that seems just like this one, until you unlock the codes that give you super powers.<\/p>\n
Or will we gradually abandon this literal body image, and shift to something else entirely? That probably seems like a very strange idea, yet if everyone does it, it will just seem normal.<\/p>\n
After all, Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy were represented only by a string of words printed on paper. In 1813 nobody seemed to mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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