McCoy carried a single dose pill potent enough to grow a new kidney. Probably available without a prescription.
So the 1978 "Invasion of Body Snatchers" then.
As depicted in Trek would be the end of humanity. No one would leave.
Fictional paragons of virtue leave it. Real people wouldn’t (well, maybe the odd few, but not enough to matter).People leave Trek's holodecks all the time.
I mean, there'll always be those who are never satisfied by anything other than the real thing.
Preferably one that worked the way it was supposed too?
While I would be interested in trying it, I can't see myself wanting to use it all that much.
People leave their tv/ipads/tablets sets all the time. Most people are not watching those 24 /7
If the holodeck is ever invented and is as convincing as its most advanced form depicted in Trek, it’ll be the most addictive thing ever seen, orders of magnitude more than anything today. The best case scenario will be a world full of Barclays with the rare exception who can avoid addiction.
Depends on what they doing in the holodeck, if they have the right to vote imagine them indulging their prejudices 24/7 - Down with the Federation dogma, Terra Prime forever, Vulcan logic extremists crap!^ But as @Butternut Squash pointed out - if those people become so addicted that they shut themselves in, it means they're not out and about in public...not bothering the rest of us. Is that really a bad thing?
I actually am a dialysis patient, so true.
Back when I was a teenager I spent a few weeks up in Seattle for medical treatment at a hospital up there, and they actually did use a needless injector, which was basically just a puff of air against my skin, for the radioactive stuff for an MRI or CAT scan, I can't remember which. All I could think of at the time was hyposprays.
