You Can’t Build a Wall High Enough

By Reihan Salam, Slate

In the near future, technology will allow foreigners to work in the United States without ever setting foot on our soil. What is holoportation? Basically, the mad scientists at Microsoft Research have cooked up a way to transmit pretty convincing three-dimensional holograms of friends, family, and (here’s the important part) co-workers in real time across vast distances. Most impressively, you can interact with these holographic projections, almost as though you were physically in the same place. If I were capable of explaining it any better than that, I would be in a garage building my own holoportation device. The video below gives you some sense of the technology’s potential, and how it works in practice.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/03/holoportation_and_virtual_immigration_will_transform_the_global_economy.html

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from Educational Technology http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/et/?p=15492