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4 Billy Graham's Glorious Jam
experts on each side of an issue clashed the viewer could theoretically come much closer to a scientific conclusion. To make the machine they merely enhanced holographic technology already extant in the early 1990s and perfected by the late two-thousand-and-twenties. A primitive example was when R2D2 projected Princess Leia during the start of the first Star Wars movie. By 2028 techies combined mobile holograms with high-speed
computers and voila! — the Spectrom.
Each Spectrom disk or spek contained the complete
writings and recorded sayings of its specter. Images could interact with historical accuracy, even if they were from different times. Computers did the listening, found the response and manipulated the specters to look as if they were really talking. Students could play with “live” Lincoln-Douglas debates. Or they could see Thomas Jefferson argue with Alexander Hamilton, Billy Graham debate Nietzsche or Gandhi reason with Lenin. You could even update specter memories so dead experts could analyze current events.
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After the debate Jake strutted into the downstairs café of Brave Books Bookstore, hoping to share his triumph and maybe get a few strokes. With his billowing, long-sleeve white shirt, he felt like one of the Three Musketeers. Yet his torso was so wiry that the extra fabric was too much. It combined with the too long pants to give a parachute effect rather than the graceful flow of medieval elegance.
The coffee shop was packed with people attending a gun show in the nearby Asheville Civic Center. They were