Assange sneaks into US conference... as full-body 3D hologram! (VIDEO)       

 

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange 

​Julian Assange has transcended the confinement of his Ecuadorian embassy asylum to attend the 2014 Nantucket Project – as a hologram. In his ghostly entirety Assange was speaking about censorship, control and manipulation of history.

  Speaking with filmmaker Eugene Jarecki, Assange closed the 2014  event, sharing his thoughts on importance of research and free  access to information, and risks of censorship.

“As a researcher, I'm all too well aware of what people are  now calling Google blindness, that the information you can’t find  on the Internet doesn’t exist,” Assange said, cited by the   Inquirer and Mirror, not missing a chance to  take on the corporation and call it a “revolving door” of NSA and  close partner of the US Government.

  In the digital world, Assange says, people can just “delete  history very easily,” a notion he attributes to Orwell’s  writing: “He who controls the present controls the past. He  who controls the past controls the future.”

“But the last five years have been the greatest period of  education that ever existed ,” Assange’s hologram added in  front of the audience gathered in a tent overlooking Nantucket  Harbor, Massachusetts. “The greatest number of people to the  greatest geographic extent are learning about their environment,  and the complexities of the international environment.”

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“My conclusion is that the best way to go about changing  things is simply to act. At its essence, when civilization is  working well, it commits us to not do dumb things again. To do  that, we have to have the ability to learn from each other, and  learn from the past, how our institutions actually behave, their  internal dialogue. Ideas can only be as good as their  inputs.”

Assange and Jarecki ended their conversation with a hologram  high-five, concluding the whistleblowers’ first almost-live  appearance in years.

Jarecki compared the  Wikileaks founder’s ghostly appearance and speech to Star  Wars: “In a wink at  life imitating art,” Jarecki wrote for The  Guardian. “It’s the  same old story of rebels against an empire, but in this case,  Assange and kindred spirits such as Edward Snowden, Chelsea  Manning and Aaron Swartz see themselves as a real life band of  rebels, loosely arrayed against an unholy global alliance of  government and economic interests.”

The Nantucket Project is an annual conference held over the past  three years, which strives to provide a relaxed setting to  gathered innovators, entrepreneurs, thinkers and decision-makers.