Another CalArts short by Jeff Liu

[Holograms are] here, and will likely be with us forever, it’s clear they represent a threat to the future...And that means, as the trend inevitably accelerates, that the stage of public life will grow ever more crowded because the old generation will never make way for the new. They will just be recycled, in digital form. Which means those new faces with fresh ideas, new forms of entertainment, new political ideas, will be doing more than just competing with the ghosts of past legends....They will have to fight them, or their holographic forms, for our love and attention. It is potentially the most frightening cultural development since the invention of the classic rock radio format...Nostalgia is a powerful thing. But at some point, it’s also important for progress to happen that we find a way to let go of our past. Celebrate it, yes. But move on. You can’t just keep listening to bad Steve Miller songs forever. And you can’t just keep bowing down to the same politicians who served a past generation...Holograms threaten that natural order. And, I fear, offer a world that stagnates because the past is never the past.