If we could someday make holographic adventures as compelling as Lucy Davenprot, would the power of such a vividly realized fantasy world destroy our grip on the actual world (47)?
All the representational arts can be considered dangerously delusional and the more entrancing they are the more disturbing.
The Star Trek story can be seen a fable differentiating humane and meaningful digital storytelling from the dehumanizing illusions that the dystopians warn about (25).
As these utopian and dystopian fictions remind us, we rely on works of fiction, in any medium, to help us understand the world and what it means to be humans.
