You and a holodeck
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^So who's your Goddess of Empathy, Holdfast?
I'd have to think long and hard about that.
As the actress said to the bishop.
This is like using the instructions that come with lego, or transformers.
Well, you're just missing out then.
I'm telling you, make a real-life holodeck, and all the current hoop-la about copyright/IP will pale in comparison to the fuss kicked up by what people will get up to with facsimilies of their favourite actress/actor in the privacy of their own homes, and the underground industry that will spring up overnight to cater for this. And the regular porn industry will have more of a bonanza than with the internet.
Would give a whole new meaning to "fair usage" too.
Speaking strictly seriously for a moment, wouldn't the bigger "concern" be people making holo-versions of people the know in real life and can't get? I think the "porn star" novelty would were off and you'd have a lot people building synthetic lives they can't or don't have.
TBH, unless it's done for commercial gain, I can't see how they have more cause to complain than if someone used their imagination, or painted a picture of them, or wrote some dodgy fanfic type story, or whatever. It's not real, or even emotional really; it's just scratching a physical itch.
Sure, it would lead to some social awkwardness if they found out, but the same applies to the examples I just listed too. I'm sure holodecks have password-protected programs.
Imagine the psychologist field day with something like this. And you think the whole "hit list' thing that you see in the news every once in a while was bad. Imagine what happens when you find out that Little Johnny is running a sim of him mowing down the prom with a phaser rifle.
That pretty much describes my ultimate fantasy.
Heh. I wrote a poem on that very topic almost 20 years ago.
So, after thinking over various fictional worlds-- Star Trek, Foundation, Classic Marvel, Clarke's Eos-- and various places in my memory-- old houses, places we stayed in New Hampshire, Greenwich Village-- I decided upon a recurring dream I've had from time to time.
The setting is a Library. It's located underground and is huge; it has multiple levels and each level spreads out so far you need a little cart to travel. It's rather old fashioned, with bookcases made of dark wood. It contains countless books and magazines from across the multiverse (for example, one could read books from another universe that Asimov didn't have time to write here). It's staffed by many beautiful Librarians in glasses and semi-business suits with miniskirts. There are also old-fashioned cage elevators that go from floor to floor, but the central one also goes up to the surface. On the surface is a beautiful forest and just outside the elevator pylon is a screenhouse. I think there might be Dinosaurs, too, but I can't remember.
Nowhere Man
Commodore
I'd create an eternal Woodstock and add the bands I would like would be traded out from time to time. There would be plenty of girls and plenty of food.
I'd love to see what the baseball world would have been like had the '94 strike never occurred. Would the Expos have won the World Series?
Sigh. We'll never know.
This is like using the instructions that come with .... transformers.
Then I challenge ye to a duel. You, me, Buster Primes at 20 paces. First to not tear his hair out in frustration wins.
Be there.
Ties into the fact that one day I'd like to learn to fly but my one program would be an airfield with a hanger that could call up any aircraft in history so that I could experience being at its controls. The first one I would try is my all time favourite, the F-14.
This is like using the instructions that come with .... transformers.
Then I challenge ye to a duel. You, me, Buster Primes at 20 paces. First to not tear his hair out in frustration wins.
Be there.
I just read the phrase "... even more complicated than in the movie...", and now I'm afraid.
And I thought Masterpiece Megatron was hard.
the two transformers i had the hardest time with were Speedbreaker (Sideburn) and Mach Alert (Prowl) from RiD.
and RiD Megatron, who i can only transform into 3 of his 6 modes. Robot, bat and 2-headed dragon.
RiD Prime and RiD Magnus were nightmares too....
and RiD Megatron, who i can only transform into 3 of his 6 modes. Robot, bat and 2-headed dragon.
RiD Prime and RiD Magnus were nightmares too....
After thinking about this bit, I need to change my program. I would want to be able to play the Sims in a holodeck. But I want to be able, at my choosing, to be able to scale up and control the city, or even the planetary conditions.
Through the Sims, you could develop endless scenarios instead of having one set theme.
Sort of a loophole to the one program idea.
Sort of a loophole to the one program idea.
No, go that way and one could find oneself 150 years later becoming the object of a commemorative license plate.who needs a holodeck when you've got a bed, quilt and several pillows with which one can build a small fort?
What do you do about the gaps where the cold air gets in?
Funnily enough, there are online instructions on how to construct a pillow fort:
http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_4896470_build-pillow-fort.html
Not to be confused with Fort Pillow, of course.
I realize it may seem uninspired, considering DS9, but if I had a holodeck I’d likely create something similar to Vic’s Las Vegas Lounge.
Not necessarily a showroom, set in Vegas, or any particularly time period. Just somewhere where I can fade into the background of a large crowd, with refreshments, and live entertainment.
Not necessarily a showroom, set in Vegas, or any particularly time period. Just somewhere where I can fade into the background of a large crowd, with refreshments, and live entertainment.
I've thought of something now.
I would enjoy using a holodeck to design and create things.
For example, I might start by designing a house, trying out some new and original ideas on how it is structured and arranged. I'd be able to take pleasure in having physical contact with my creation, so I could understand how the building works in physical human terms, rather than theoretically through paper or in my imagination (which can never give a complete enough experience).
I would be able to create it with a combination of voice commands and by physically rearranging things, and it would be far easier than doing this in real life, and easy to press undo if the thing collapses or isn't to my liking.
I could do the same for a whole town and surrounding countryside, moving buildings and forests, farmland and hills and lakes, expanding some areas, and contracting others, and making the town feel efficient and pleasant, a synergy of the logical and the beautiful.
I'd be in my element doing that.
I would enjoy using a holodeck to design and create things.
For example, I might start by designing a house, trying out some new and original ideas on how it is structured and arranged. I'd be able to take pleasure in having physical contact with my creation, so I could understand how the building works in physical human terms, rather than theoretically through paper or in my imagination (which can never give a complete enough experience).
I would be able to create it with a combination of voice commands and by physically rearranging things, and it would be far easier than doing this in real life, and easy to press undo if the thing collapses or isn't to my liking.
I could do the same for a whole town and surrounding countryside, moving buildings and forests, farmland and hills and lakes, expanding some areas, and contracting others, and making the town feel efficient and pleasant, a synergy of the logical and the beautiful.
I'd be in my element doing that.
