When Will We Get the Holodeck?
According to its creator, at least 100 years.
Not to mix my Star Trek metaphors before even getting started, but the holodeck is the Omega particle. For the showrunners of The Next Generation and thereafter, it was a semi-magical apparatus, a gridded room accessed through bay doors that functioned as the Enterprise and, later, the Voyager’s mind-eye. From within, holograms of limitless physical dimension were projected, indistinguishable from real life, simulating remote destinations from deep space: verdant green forests, a quaint Irish knoll. It could reconstruct whatever you wanted in the blink of an eye.
