Holodecks in Star Trek were kind of a cool technology where I first its debut on the premiere episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. A little room that lets you simulate entire worlds as if they were real. If you wanted to visit the streets of Paris during a certain period of time or if you want to explore a foreign world… hell, maybe you wanted to play a part in your favorite novel or watch old sportsball games from the best seats, all it took was a few parameters and there you go.
All of that information procedurally generated from knowledge banks stored in computer memory. To be able to recreate real things… even real people… having them act in a fair approximation of their true personalities or perhaps even in other ways outside their known personalities.
Holodeck seems like a pretty cool technology.
Sometimes, you have to ask yourself… that shit had to come from somewhere, doesn’t it?
And then you go online and what do you see? Procedurally generated video content featuring real people doing things you normally wouldn’t see them do because they wouldn’t be doing these things. We tend to frown on this things for various reasons, but what if it goes a step further and it becomes integrated in virtual reality? What if we improve that to a point where virtual reality can become actual reality? Instead of interacting with these things from a helmet or visor, we interact with these things in holographic form…
Like I said, that holodeck tech had to start somewhere.
Seemed like a fun thing back in the day… do we feel the same way now?
Just a random thought.
