Holodeck

It is the 1st of October of 2016. Like many Trekkers, I define wealth differently from other people. Star Trek defines what is being rich. Being rich for me is about living in the future, perhaps with a likeable occupation with Starfleet, as I could be an astrobiologist or exobiologist. There would be recreation time on the holodeck. Or there would be real vacation on the pleasure planet Risa. I could have any food or drink I would want, simply by ordering the food replicator. Being rich is something different for us Trekkers.

[…] the fact that science-fiction film, and indeed much — if not most — contemporary film, has become a technology on the way to somewhere else, whether that goal turns out to be immersive, interactive, or some holodeck-style fusion of the two.

Computer music might someday replace acoustic music made by human beings, but that time is far away, waiting either for Holodecks to be perfected or for a generation of listeners to arrive who are too busy and too uninvolved with their ambient surroundings to want to relate to them[.]

Building a holodeck will require breakthroughs in sensors, robotics, and mechanical interfaces […]

In such a world, would one want to be hooked up to a pleasure machine or live on a holodeck?