Word: holograms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tale of Jem: pop diva by night, successful Starlight Records CEO Jerrica Benton by day. Always generous, Benton even donated all of the profits of Starlight Records to an orphanage. But the coolest part about Benton was her transformation—after having her computer Synergy project a hologram over her body, she would emerge as Jem, the hottest, most talented rock star of her day and Starlight’s most lucrative...
That's going to be hard to do. The herky-jerky video and out-of-synch audio of 1991 is gone--thanks to superior hardware and software and broadband Internet connections. The most advanced videoconferencing setups can transmit participants' images with a 3-D-hologram quality reminiscent of Captain Kirk beaming down from the Starship Enterprise. And at every level of sophistication, videoconferencing systems cost a fraction of what they did in 1991. This time, users and industry experts agree, the technology is here to stay. Even after the recession ends and terror fears abate, says Jaclyn Kostner, a consultant...
...even more egregious example was a packet I received earlier this year about Harvard's library system. "Jump back! It's Harvard's library system!" this packet said in 847 glossy pages. I heard that prototype versions were even fancier: they projected a hologram of President Neil L. Rudenstine beating the president of Yale over the head with Moby Dick and declaring, "Kick the crap out of learning!" Did we really need this? Was there anyone at Harvard unaware that its libraries existed? Harvard's hope must have been that some kid in Stoughton would say, "Well, Hallelujah...