Hologram

Holograms are not new. I visited Holographic museums in the '80s. Of course the faster processing today allowed Prime Minister Modi in India to use moving holograms of himself during his campaign to broadcast speeches in many places at once, "in person". They are still ethereal looking and have a ways to go before the emotions of the human presence can be felt in a moving holographic projection.

While the technology is intriguing, the content itself is the key. Mr. Modi's effectiveness springs from his personal presence, how he speaks, the emotions he inspires.... Technology alone cannot inspire.

Look at the earth as a hologram. Though the 3D effect of seeing the image in real life, where you can walk around the thing will be novel, it is nothing compared to seeing the real earth from space. And that technology is just around my age.

During the time I've been blogging, sharing my personal impressions reflected a time of reckoning. What some might call failure turned out to be strength. While some whom I saw to be my mentors remained the same as I gained in perspective and understanding. What surprises me the most are the methodology and norms that were useful during my youth, which I have left behind for more relevant ways, have become stone cold tradition for some.

It's a little like I have learned to see the world more like a hologram where you can view it from multiple vantage points as you walk around it, while some of my old friends still gaze at an old map plotted by sailors in a boat. No matter how hard I try to tell them, they will not understand until they take a "quantum" leap in their minds to see the hologram I see.

My amazement at the difference is that I am not very smart. If I can learn, I believe anyone can. What is more extraordinary is that the hologram (like knowledge) is about to be improved much further, and I plan to move forward to new vantage points that knowledge takes us.