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...sure, current technologies that transmit images and voice fall far short of anything remotely realistic. At present, teleconferencing generally involves jerky video and canned sound. There is no real eye contact. The center hopes to project a 3-D avatar so real that you'll feel as if Bob is really sitting next you and Tina is across the table, though in reality they might be a continent or two away. "You can be immersed anywhere in the world and feel like a participant," says Max Nikias, the center's director. Within a decade or so, he predicts...
...mail scrolls across the bottom of my shaving mirror. I cut myself, twice, after reading that my holographic boss, Bob, wants to see me first thing. I wonder if Bob...
...Bob is upset. Apoplectic, even. He says I've forgotten to update his processor. (Which isn't the case. The Pentium 34 isn't due out for another couple of weeks.) This furthers my suspicion...
...wife is home. Dinner at the Bubble, a local restaurant that blocks all wireless transmissions. (Bob won't like this but, hey, he's off-line...
...electric boat the other day. We put out on the Hudson River just below Rhinecliff, to spend a quiet afternoon - a noiseless afternoon on windless water - sliding north under low clouds towards the Esopus lighthouse. On the west bank stood a Catholic monastery and on the east bank, Bob Guccione's mansion, so that you might say our course represented the Middle...