Distracted Masses Vol. 1 Issue #3 1 | Page 42

FUTURE WORLD: A HOLOGRAPHIC REALITY? Holography & Augmented Reality As the world’s population grows there will be more types of everybody, everywhere, including inventors. It boggles my mind to try and think of the different technologies those inventors will create just in my lifetime, let alone three generations from now. Just in the area of holographic imaging there are tons of ideas coming to fruition already. According to Zebra Imaging’s website, “holograms provide a statistically significant performance improvement over traditional textbook materials in understanding anatomy, especially in regards to spatial relationships.” If this is true than what about astronomy? Could holograms help to provide us with a better understanding of the cosmos? Can it advance our thinking as a species and help us to understand a higher dimensional universe by bringing the flatlanders to us? To me it’s like going from thinking the world’s flat, to understanding that it’s round. A whole new set of opportu