It's the future, and people are having sex with a hologram of you. Do you care?

In My Humble Opinion
21

Yes, the OP was poorly thought out. Take away the “Looking into the future” thing and make it happen in the here and now.

I’d bet you’d get a whole different set of answers.

To the OP: I would not care.

22

This. Am I the last hologram on earth?

23

Awwwwwwwww yeeeeeeeeeah.

24

Roger that. -_-;

25

Well, in the future, everyone has the perfect body. Because, you know, science.

So now, flabby is the new sexy.

26

I weep for the future. :frowning:

I don’t really care what’s done with my image, as long as I’ve first been posthumously baptized into the Mormon faith.

27

My answer in the here and now would be different - closer to “I’m bothered by it, but not enough to release the pulse.”

But if it’s people I’m never, ever going to run in to and have to make small talk with? Pffft. OK, have fun. Weirdo.

28

How do you have sex with a hologram? You can’t feel it. Or are people just watching a hologram of you having sex? Is it recorded, or created?

29

I reserve the right to watch, and if warranted, to return the favor to their hologram.

30

I think I can sum up my feelings memetically as “Doesn’t Matter. [My Hologram] Had Sex!”

31

They can do it right now with their imagination. I don’t have a problem with people masturbating, so I don’t have a problem with this. I thought it was rather odd that, on TNG, people did apparently have a problem with it, especially with Roddenberry’s ideals where people don’t even let the death of a loved one overly affect them.

I can’t see why I wouldn’t be just as flattered as I am now when someone fantasizes about me. It’s irrelevant that they now can see me in real life.

Those shrines that you see on TV are only creepy because it shows how obsessed they are. Using a [del]holodeck[/del]HoloSoft like that would not require any fantastical level of devotion.

32

Hologram in the context refers to the “hard light” variety you normally see in science fiction. They have perfect haptic feedback. You really need to be thinking about Star Trek, not Star Wars.

33

If I were able to negotiate a shitload of money right now to the right to use MY hologram image in this way in the future, I might do so. Otherwise, no. It’s my image.

34

Oh, there’s such a thing? Never seen ST. Can they simulate hardness, surface texture and temperature?

35

Holograms don’t exist now, silly. I wanted to make the OP realistic. Hence seeing into the future and tachyons.

36

Then the Nobel Prize committed must be feeling really foolish about giving the 1971 Physics award to Dennis Gabor for inventing them.

37

When I can visit his holodeck he can have all the prizes he likes.

38

Yes. But you’ll feel yourself having sex with the sort of women that have to resort to holograms to have sex.

39

I want mah two dollar!!!

40

I’m someone who’d wants to be in porn now, why on earth would I object to being used in the future?