SO i opened up my Facebook account to stalk the regulars and see what funiness/tradgeys had occurred that day, and there it was. Someone had posted an interesting sounding video. Probably all of you have seen this by now, but it was a video of a very strange musical performance; a video of a holographic 2Pac giving a posthumous performance at Coachella. My interest in this lasted about as long as it took you to read this sentence but it did make me think a couple of things. First, we FINALLY have scientific PROOF that even a fucking machine could give an adequate rap performance (kidding? eh...fuck it, i'm not writing this to make friends...you know it's true). Secondly, we are FINALLY approaching an era where the science fiction concept of holograms is becoming a reality. I mean shit, if Digi-Pac is realistic enough to make the stoned masses scream while delivering Hail Mary, what else could we expect?
I pose the following.
The first application. Porn. Do i even need to explain the use of a virtual hottie moaning and writhing within what seems to be inches from you? I didn't think so. Seems pretty obvious. Let your imagination run wild.
Second, is also pretty much a given. Military. Undoubtedly, the military is the key proponent in progressing and expanding this technology. Besides the obvious decoy hologram soldier, this type of technology could have an untold amount of uses. If you ask any artist, they will tell the most difficult thing to make look realistic is the human body and face. So if we are able project a convinicing image of a person then we can assuredly project a convinicing image of a machine. And if we can project a convincing image of a machine, we can probably project environments and therefore cloak objects by superimposing the physical subject with the image of a projected environment. Not only am i talking about an armor that could visually match virtually any surface (ie Metal Gear Solid 4) but i am talking about the shit Tom Cruise used in the new Mission Impossible flick when he infiltrated the Kremiln (ya i saw it so you don't have to). I am talking about some Ghost in the Shell/Predator invisiblity shit! Camouflage that can stream reality onto fabric in real time. Check this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD83dqSfC0Y . This vid is way older than it says. I saw a clip just like this when i was in my last semester in college. That was 2004! That is 8 years ago! Damn I am old! AND that is shit on Youtube, far from classified military info. What you have in your hand, pocket (not your dick, idiot, your cellphone) is chock full of James Bond-ian shit that started as top secret military ideas. Cameras on a concealable device, Global Positioning Systems, wireless electronic mail. Mark my words, invisibility, as much as it sounds like science fiction WILL BECOME SCIENCE FACT! Imagine a tank cloaked with this type of technology "hiding" in plain sight, primed to knock on the enemy's door, so to speak. What a twist on the Trojan Horse story that would be.
But how can holograms help people like you and me who won't be fighting clandestine wars?
Have you lost a loved one? Can you just not get past the thought of ever seeing them again? Would maybe seeing them one more time make it easier for you to get up and have a productive day. Well with holographic technology we can prolong your loved ones memory. They look and sound just like the real thing! Would you know if the person was real or not if you couldn't smell or touch them. If your eyes and ears were absolutely convinced it was the living article, would you know?
Would you know if the person was real or not if you had never met them before but just heard about them? Say for example, Elvis. Or what about Jesus? What if there was a group of individuals who realized what type of influence and political/religious implications an event like the second coming of Jesus would have. And with the "miracle" of holographic technology, said group made our Lord walk the earth again. Would you know if it was really Him or not? Would you? You would probably be watching the event on the internet or on your phone anyway, far removed...
Well if we couldn't touch it, we couldn't prove it was real...
What if we could manipulate physical appearance. Play with this idea. So in the future, Harry Potter style invisiblity is old hat (or cloak), and we have perfected the technology. The fabrics are more refined with the advent of carbon fibers. The material that comprises the cloak is the thickness of a hair. The concept of projecting any image onto the surface has been honed. You can now have more or less a second skin that mimics any type of outward appearance that you desire. No more ugliness and dry spells cuz of an acne flare up or a bad hair day. You can look like Brad Pitt one day and George Clooney the next (women use your imagination...think Angelina Jolie). A surface of skin that is beyond skin, we'll call it Meta-Skin. Meta-skin can make the horribly disfigured burn victim appear beautiful again. The elderly appear youthful.The fugitive on the run appear as an innocent man. The Meta-skin reality: where physical appearance can change as frequently as browsing pages on the web. We all can look the exact same...as beautiful Brangelinas. But if we all are beautiful, what makes us unique? Something not physical. Something intangible. Our personality, spirit, soul? Something the 2pac hologram didn't have. So is the spirit world really the real reality? I'll stop cuz im going on a tangent...
The duet of Snoop and Ghost-Pac, for me, is a sign of exciting things in the future. For all the doom and gloom i constantly hear from people about the world coming to the end...we may be on the cusp of a wildly inventive time. It will be a time that will probably not answer our questions on what is reality and what does it mean to be human but will ask new questions and rephrase old ones. It will be a crazy place. A place that i am sure i can't even imagine but may glance at it in my dreams. Perhaps it will be a place where maybe i could finish writing this article because i could send a holographic doppelganger to work for me (just look like you are busy).
keep asking questions everyone.
peace
