I remember watching “Total Recall” when I was a young boy, and I remember the hologram, when Arnold Schwarzenegger projected a 3D image of himself to a different place using this device. While I was in class we watched a video where this guy does just that, I was amazed. First of all, I did not know what the video was about, so when this guy walks onto the stage when he is 14,000 miles away from it I was shocked. I almost had to leave my seat because I did not think it was real. Then about halfway through the video I started thinking about how much money a technology like this could save business people who have to travel for meetings and to give seminars. I have been reading a book by Robert Kiyosaki called “Rich Dad’s Prophecy” and there is a part when Robert is writing about the future, he was saying that in the information age that changes will be invisible. People had to travel by boat first and then by plane in the present, in the future they will use a technology such as this and they will not have to leave their home base. This will save time and money for everyone and not require people to have to take days off recuperating after a business trip. I was so excited about this that I showed it to my girlfriend and then we started talking more about it. Imagine what movies or computer games could be like. Business could have meetings just like in the movie “Resident Evil”, where the whole board is not actually there. Politicians could give speeches to every place at once and be as effective as if they were there in person, this would also reduce the risk of assassination. The world’s best teachers could teach classes to and from anywhere in the world. People of different cultures could meet almost in person and learn about each other, further flattening the world. The future is already here; we just don’t know it yet.
