Events that happen in the "future" in games that have now passed in real life.

[Ed Oscuro]

"Now, so much time has elapsed and I'm old now. I think it's time for me to tell you the whole story. I hope this story will be told for a long time.

2010.8.2

Joe"

So now we know that he actually meant "I hope this story will still be generating revenues twenty years from now, huh?

Also, Max Headroom seems to have been set in the mid-2000s (although one of the subtitles for some incarnation of the show was "20 Minutes Into the Future" which seems more appropriate).

It's going to take a lot of space to compress holograms.

I guess it would if you used the wrong dang format - holographic storage is well-suited for a block of memory, not a flat plane. Which isn't to say you can't store holograms on a flat disc, but it would make more sense to store them by volume.