Not only are hologram displays a fixture of futuristic movies and TV shows, they're up there with hoverboards and flying cars as some of the most highly coveted imaginary technologies.
While markedly different from his previous writing, in that it is not set in an imaginary future with imaginary technologies, Pattern Recognition includes many of his previous elements, including impacts of technology shifts on society, Japanese computer experts and Russian mafia figures.
Although this imaginary technology is no more technically plausible than lifelike androids, it is a necessity for the alien-planet adventure story.
By then I was able to make the characters walk around and interact in physical space, but I'd realised how useful it was to have that sort of imaginary technology and instant and ever-dramatic access to... the psychedelic, essentially.
I think I will, I've always felt that what's lacking from modern political discourse is a fixation on redundant, imaginary technology.
Yet fans of the early Gibson may be mystified to discover that it features no imaginary futuristic technologies or hallucinogenic descriptive passages about cyberspace - a word he invented in 1982.
A quick scan with the tricorder indicates that he suffers from "severe heart damage; signs of congestion in both lungs; evidence of massive circulatory collapse".Along with teleportation, speech-driven computers and hand-held wireless communicators that flip open, the medical tricorder was one of many imaginary future technologies featured in "Star Trek".
If you show off imaginary cool technology in a film or TV series, then kids, teenagers and enthusiastic technologists of all ages will try their damnedest to make it come true.
In this scenario, Fairson's is imaginary, but this technology is very real.
Overview of Lesson Plan: In this lesson, students consider their beliefs about proper and improper surveillance and then create imaginary neighborhoods featuring surveillance technology in various public and private sites.
This imaginary line, which identifies the technology's stage of development at which it is sensible for a health service to invest research resources, sets the boundaries for the area of acceptable maximum risk.
