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    8 months ago

    I totally blocked from my memory the very brief period when holograms were a thing, and then no one ever spoke of them again. Even Tupac performed “live” via hologram iirc

    Such a silly moment in time. Pretty remarkable though how accurately The Empire Strikes Back predicted holograms to look way back in 1980. Pretty much exactly how these things looked.

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      I totally blocked from my memory the very brief period when holograms were a thing

      Yeah, I think some corner of my brain I knew this was exactly the kind of thing that would make us go wtf after some time had passed.

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      8 months ago

      Pretty sure holograms existed when Star Wars was made. Probably different styles, like projected on glass panes, but I’m not sure what cnn was using.

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      8 months ago

      They come and go.

      Frank Zappa, “Bobby Brown” - “A real hologram! Well, not a real hologram, but almost a real hologram.”

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      8 months ago

      It felt like cosmic justice when he was on celebrity jeopardy. He didn’t know a damn thing, which was true to my idea of him.