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The Future is Here. Just watch CNN.
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 at 11:29 am
posted by Marc Steel
categories Tech Fetish, television
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| The Situation Room is so tense they must beam people in via hologram. |
So maybe the biggest thing to happen last night was not the election of an African-American as POTUS.
It was CNN's introduction of studio holograms. Did you see that shit?!? How do you not think of Star Wars?
Necessary? Not really. But it's a hologram! I kept waiting for Princess Leia to show up saying, "Help us Barack Obama, you are our only hope."
Here's a post on Tech Crunch and here's Wolf Blitzer having a conversation with Yoda.
Dozens of special hi-def cameras and thousands or millions of dollars to broadcast a 3D image over a 2D medium. Oh, CNN, what are we gonna do with you?
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