LAST WORD with John Meyer, Part II
We haven’t been able to project sound forward, like a sound hologram. It’s starting to happen in video using lasers, but we haven’t got the equivalent with audio.
Everyone’s hoping we’ll figure out 3D sound… we’re hoping, too. It’s like the Greeks hoping to fly. I asked my mechanical engineer friends, “Could you build a hang glider out of materials that existed during Greek times or do you need high-tech materials to make a hang glider?”
They never figured out how to get a kite that wasn’t tethered to fly. They pulled people up with a string,
