People would stop reproducing, your virtual Scarlett Johansson could have perfect virtual kids who'll never wind up in jail or steal money from you to buy crack. If you get tired of them, tell the holodeck to blink them out of existence. If you're saying that you're a high-minded person who pursues spiritual goals and would never be sucked in by anything as crude as a simulation, hey, they've got a holodeck for you, too. You can sit down to dinner with Plato and Abe Lincoln and Gandhi and Jesus. If somebody yanked you out of that to go work at the post office all day, you'd barricade yourself in with a shotgun.
人们会停止生小孩，你的虚幻的Scarlett Johansson能生出来完美的虚幻小孩，他们永远不会进监狱或者偷你的钱去买零食。如果你厌烦了他们，就告诉全息甲板，让他们在一眨眼的工夫里消失。如果说你是一个有着高尚情操的人，追求的是精神满足，永远不会沉浸在虚幻制造出来的东西里。别急，全息甲板也能满足你。你可以和柏拉图、林肯、甘地、耶稣坐在一起吃饭。要是某人叫你离开，去邮局上一天班，你自己就会拿把鸟枪拦住你自己。
If aliens showed up to Earth 1,000 years later, they'd find an abandoned planet with ten billion mummified corpses laying on the floor of ten billion dusty holodecks, with huge smiles on their faces.
倘若一千年以后，外星人出现在地球，他们会看到一个被抛弃的星球，上面是几百亿个木乃伊般的僵尸躺在几百亿个灰扑扑的全息甲板上，脸上都是夸张的笑容。

2.Teleporters
第二名：远程传送
As seen in:
Star Trek, The Fly, countless video games.
曾经出现在：
《星际迷航》，《变蝇人》，还有数不清的电子游戏里。

Why we thought we wanted it:
Here's a technology that'd make the flying car and the jetpack both look like that retarded Flintstones car you drive with your feet. We're talking instant transport to anywhere, any time. You can live on the beach in Hawaii and live in New York. Sit there in the morning and sip coffee until about five seconds before the meeting is set to start, then step into your transport and there you are, in the conference room.
我们想要它的原因：
有一种技术，能让飞车和飞行背包都看起来像呆呆的《摩登原始人》里，你用脚开的那种车一样傻。这儿说的是瞬间传送东西到任何时间、任何地点的技术。你可以住在夏威夷的海滩上，也可以住在纽约。在开会前五秒钟，你还可以坐在早晨的海滩上品着咖啡，然后你起身走进你的传送机——你就到会议室了。

Why we were wrong:
Many later science fiction writers have declared that a device that can disassemble and reassemble a human molecule-by-molecule would be patently unsafe (the most famous and grotesque portrayal of a teleporter accident came, of course, in the film Spaceballs). But, even if they get the bugs worked out (what method of transportation is perfectly safe, after all?) there is a much larger and much weirder issue.
我们是笨笨：
后来的许多科幻小说家都声明说，那种可以一个分子一个分子地拆分、组合人体的设备，很明显是不安全的（史上最著名和怪异的失败的传送，出现在电影《太空炮弹》里）。但是，尽管他们补上了漏洞（终究哪种传送方式会是完全安全的？），还是有一个更大的、更离奇的问题。