HAMLET ON THE HOLODECK

A new medium for storytelling.

by. Stephen Lane

SCIFI AND FANTASY

Stories of the future have been around for

a long time now.Aldous Huxley’s Brave

New World. Set hundreds of years in

the future.

SCIENCE FICTION IS A WAY FOR PEOPLE TO LEAVE THERE NORMAL DAY LIFE AND

EXPERIENCE SOMETHING NEW AND EXCITING.

Back to the future 2, took the audience took the future.Which showed us a possible future.

Flying Cars and such.

VISIONS ON THE FUTURE

Murray’s text brings up the point that there are two different visions of the future.

Utopian Dystopian

Utopian Future - Visions of a perfect future, war free, disease free, awesome technologies.

The Holodeck, from star trek is a utopian advancement on virtual reality. Inside the holodeck you can experience anything, it provides completely realistic simulations.

The replicator from star trek was capable of creating food and beverages, among other things basically out of nowhere.

Utopian Technologies: Many different movies or stories have featured similar technologies. Medical technology is one

big one.

This is the healing device used in Stargate. Star trek had healing tools

Which used lasers.

Other Utopian Technologies featured in star trek are the holonovel.

The holonovel is basically a novel that uses holodeck technology to let people actually play the parts in the novels.

This is a star trek character playing Beowulf in a holonovel.

Dystopian future - visions of a future that is basically a nightmare.

The terminator movies are thePerfect example of dystopian Future.

In these movies, we used ourTechnology to create our own

Destruction, making robots andComputer systems who then

Turned on us.

“The more persuasive the medium, the more dangerous it is.”

This statement is as true today as it ever will be.

With video games today being as real as real life. It can cause People to lose reasoning and think that anything's okay.

THE MULTIFORM STORY

The multiform story is a story told using a form of the parallel universe theory. Like how every choice we make has a different possible outcome. These types of movies have become more common in the past decade or so, do to the fact that our technology is approaching that level to where it may be possible.

Examples of this are : It’s a wonderful life.In this movie a man gets to seeWhat his hometown would be

Like if he had never lived.

Mr. Destiny

In this movie a man seesHow his life would’ve beenIf he hit the game winning Homerun in high school.

The Family Man

In this movie a man sees How his life would’ve beenIf he made one decision Differently.

3-D MOVIES

The biggest 3d movie to ever be released, was in fact a movie where the characters were actually becoming someone else.AVATAR recently came out, in this movie the characters would go into a computer and take over the body of a alien life form. So having this movie in 3-D made the audience more active.

So whether it’s good or bad technology, we are getting ever closer to some of these possibilities.

While much of what we see on TV and in the movies is still just theories and research, it’ll soon be made real.

By the end of this century “the equivalent of seeing a movie might begin with simple walk through a 3-d environment like a theme based park of restaurant.”