Why we should embrace our holographic future

Don't scoff at holograms. In the near future, they'll help us learn, feel, and experience untold wonders.

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Most of us know holograms as the stuff of sci-fi, or a weird CNN election night gambit, or a creepy way of reviving Tupac for an unsettling concert. It's easy to dismiss holograms in those ways. But in reality, the technology has a lot of potential that scientists and scholars alike are digging into.

The mysterious quality of holograms is finally dissipating. Anyone with a smartphone and some graph paper can build a makeshift hologram projector. And as holograms become more accessible, the impact they could have on how we learn is becoming more clear.

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.