When Holography Converges. The Future Of Everything
WARNING: Sometimes my writing gets a little adventurous. Please be advised of futuristic non-sensible thinking. It may cause an irresistible urge to finish reading the article.Hologram Airlines
If I were to start an airline or re-brand one (or invest in one), this would be our corporate name....Hologram Airlines. Sometimes I sit and think (yes, it happens), what in the world will be the next big thing. Like, really big. Like "The Telephone" or the "TV" or the "Internet". It's really hard to come up with it, cause the forefathers of invention created building blocks that drive a pretty hard bargain.
I mean who would of thought, just ten years ago, that we would be able to talk into a gizmo on our wrist and verbally (visually coming soon to a theater near you) communicate with anyone in the world...instantly. 20 years ago the movie makers called it "science fiction". I think we've arrived.
The photo in the image above was from an article in Open Knowledge. The title reads:
What air travel will look like in 2050
Side note: This article is not about air travel in it's current state. We are looking way beyond that, where people are transported without aircrafts. An era where aircraft are all unmanned and the skies are too dangerous for civilian aircraft. The drone ruling skies of Amazon have been take over by the bots. The very bots we commissioned by shopping on the internet. Who would of thought.This is why we only mention the Photo Source article because they still depict people boarding an aircraft and physically flying to their destination. We don't think it will be so. Why?
So as you read the rest of the article...think less about today and more about tomorrow....or your children's children. In context, my great grandfather never saw an aircraft.
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Bots have taken over the skies. Although regulators are trying their best, Amazon wins over governments and the drones take over. The skies are now too dangerous for civilian passenger aircraft, so the new market risk changes the air travel industry forever. Larger and larger unmanned aircraft are bringing us internet shopping induced parcels. The skies as a medium of human transport are gone forever. The supply and demand of air travel, with associated costs is becoming more risky, and hence now available to the masses. Prices sink so low that the market is no longer sustainable.
What takes over? The Telephone?
Not if we are reading the market correctly. If we read correctly and coherently and think of all industries that are experiencing growth along the lines of technology....and now think of one other word....Holography. Yes, that's the future.
I mean, think about it. Google is collecting and collecting information beyond compare. They just mapped the entire world visually and geographically by driving cars through our neighborhoods. The visuals and information got to be part of something bigger. Enter, virtual reality. Imagine wanting to walk through Venice without physically being in Venice. Well, Google has those videos, and Hologram Airlines can take you there.
Spotify and Apple know what you like to listen to, musically. So imagine the Venice experience now with audio and visual feeds. Your favorite tunes magically come to life in your microchip sized "always-on" earbud interface. Beautiful. Take it one step further. Virtual reality see only one way? Hmmmm.
What if, and when, those same headsets begin to see "two" ways...
Like an invisible glass that let's other users into your environment, or you into their's, or both. Imagine the ramifications of that. (After all, the skies have been taken over by Amazon Drones, so humans can no longer fly.)
Beam me up Scottie is not too far away.
Here is an excerpt from The Verge article on Microsoft's new Virtual Reality...
It's a self-contained computer, including a CPU, a GPU, and a dedicated holographic processor. The dark visor up front contains a see-through display, there's spatial sound so you can "hear" holograms behind you, and HoloLens also integrates a set of motion and environmental sensors. - The Verge
Lighting fixtures in our ceilings will no longer serve the purpose of lighting. They will be projecting holographic renderings of those we want to interact with.
Google is still leading the way on this front. Google glass, where the glass reads your environment. Now that is way cool. When virtual reality converges. When both, you can be scene virtually, and you can see virtually. A little confusing, but possible.
So, what happens to all the airlines and government investment in them. Has Amazon's drones and technology companies taken over. We think so. After all, without human interaction and machines, they wouldn't even be flying today in the first place. Another self imposed restriction by humankind. What could we think of next.
So, yes, Hologram Airlines. That is the future. The virtual transport of people will drastically uproot the air travel industry as we know it. Where perhaps, instead of adding words (based on technological innovations) to our dictionaries for gain in popularity, we will be deleting words. Like HUG and TOUCH. Will we remember these words when Hologram Airlines will be able to beam you and a friend together, anywhere in the world.
Notwithstanding the jargon in this article, airlines and aircraft OEM, and governments (already there) need to begin planning for the holographic revolution. A world where I could be giving this writing verbatim via a virtual TED conference, with attendees from anywhere in the world. A world where you could even come up and shake my virtual hand, virtually.
In its pure form, holography requires the use of laser light for illuminating the subject and for viewing the finished hologram. In a side-by-side comparison under optimal conditions, a holographic image is visually indistinguishable from the actual subject, if the hologram and the subject are lit just as they were at the time of recording. A microscopic level of detail throughout the recorded volume of space can be reproduced. - WikipediaThen, dear friends, the bots have taken over.
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