I’d say they offer prosumer options for sure, but they also have what I would consider enterprise offerings as well. Even a large campus can easily be run off their enterprise gear.
Holograms are programs that run on a computer. They have no physical form, they are force fields and light being projected from a piece of hardware bolted to the wall to convince you they have form, but their true "self" is just data in a computer like any other program. Their experiences are database entries. They can be deleted, copied, transmitted, paused and restarted like any other program. They are incapable of doing anything that the computer they're running on can't do.
Isn’t this true of humans in the world as well?
They run on a meat computer, and are limited in their capabilities to what that meat computer and meat suit can do.
Humans can be paused, deleted, and restarted. The many different transporter fuck ups kinda prove that. The only thing stopping it from being a norm is safeties, which have been circumvented before and will be again.
Human memories are also manipulatable. They’ve proven to be deletable, injectable, editable.
It really feels like your argument is “they are digital so can’t be alive.” Which seems very anti Trek.
Nah it just means you rambled to the point that I didn’t want to bother reading a wall of text. Instead of stating a clear point you wrote a novel that spanned the galaxy with how varied it was.
Er, source? Last I knew the state was being actively prevented from investigating. And charging someone without having done any investigation is a great way to get them double jeopardy instead of held accountable.
I… I don’t know how you’d even stream that? A log of pages loaded?