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Originally Posted by XPays
there is no way to know what the popular layman's term will be. what do you think it will be called?
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Well, as I see it, "
holo" has already been terminally de-coupled from the actual methods and mechanisms of Holography by the popularization of the term in Star Trek, TNG -- namely, "
holodeck".
The valiant commitment by the ST-TNG Exec. producers -- Piller, Berman & Echevarria -- to "plausible science" notwithstanding, pretty much
nobody thinks of refraction and interferometry when they think about the holodeck, as depicted on the show. It may as well be a
block box, in which Technology (behaving as "magic", in the AC Clarke sense) simply materializes physical truth. The fact that this is also the same show that brought us (that bane of Reverse Engineers) the Transporter, does NOT help.
In your case (and,
if I were, as you are, interested in guessing jargon of the future), I would focus
not on the branding of a technology which very few people really understand, anyway (even before the Holodeck eroded what little scientific clarity had ever been accorded to Holography, in the popular grasp, in the first place), but focus instead on the
applications of holography, and the catchy descriptors to be fathomed there --
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