Holograms. Together with flying cars and teleportation, they were the biggest disappointment of sci-fi movies and novels' promises for this generation. Watching the likes of Star Trek, everyone assumed that this stuff will materialize in their lifetime, and by now we'll either be flying a few feet above the ground while going on a burrito run, or straight out get our atoms and molecules disassembled, and then collected again in no time straight in front of the Taco Bell queue. Communication, we thought, would be done via lifelike images of ourselves, and no one will have to travel for conferences ...
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