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Excerpted from "Holography, history"
Encyclopaedia Britannica
One hundred and seventy ninth edition
Chicago, 2649

The great advances in particle physics in the twenty fifth and twenty
sixth centuries, which enabled nanoengineers to manipulate
constructively atoms and substomic particles, resulted in the
development of effective replicator technology (q.v.), the further
evolution of which led to holographic technology.  After fifty years of
effort scientists and engineers at Star Fleet University (q.v.)
succeeded in creating programed holographic pseudo environments at the
end of the twenty sixth century. Star Fleet (q.v.) incorporated this
innovation into its new "Cosmos" class space craft beginning in 2603. 
Great controversies arose about this new technology, when manufacturers
announced their intentions to make it available to the general public at
an affordable price.  Federation executive bodies petitioned parliament
for legislation prohibiting the public use of "holodecks", as the new
holographic systems were popularly known, arguing that they posed a
threat to children and the mentally unstable, who, it was argued, would
certainly abuse them to escape reality.  Religious groups, womens
organizations and the advocates of children joined the government's
effort to restrict the private use of holodecks, arguing that they would
be employed to create pseudo environments in which individuals would
engage in acts that were otherwise illegal and grossly immoral.  The
opponents' cause was furthered by the arrest of a man for the possession
of an unlicensed holodeck.  Among the holographic programs confiscated
was one which created a harem of naked boys and girls, images modeled on
children in the man's neighborhood.  Another program contained the image
of the man himself, lying naked on a luxurious bed.  Some people stated
that the man was having sex with himself on the holodeck.  Manufacturers
and civil libertarians countered the opposition.  The resulting
legislation was a compromise which satsified neither party.  Holographic
programs were limited to a two hour duration and they had to be approved
by local authorities, which would set the standards for their content. 
This effort to restrict the free use of holodecks was thwarted by the
development of easily learned techniques that permitted individuals to
create their own programs. The private ownership of holodecks became as
common as television sets and personal computers in the second half of
the twentieth century, or automobiles earlier in that century.  It
created a revolution in human culture: public entertainment withered, 
the marriage rate declined drastically, and certain sex crimes almost
disappeared, especially those committed against children, and male rape
of females.  A new form of crime became widespread, however: the
abduction of young men by small gangs of women, who held the victim
until each gang member became impregnated.  Governments tolerated this
new crime wave, because of official concern about the falling birth
rate.  In time this form of crimminal behavior became ritualized. Teen
age boys would display themselves provocatively in codpieces, and feign
resistance to the cheerful women and girls who gently led them away. 
Older men and women seemed happier and they lived longer, apparently as
a consequence of the holographic revolution.

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