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Japan's Latest Rock Star Is A 3D Hologram - Draws Huge Crowds
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#32They really missed the boat by not naming her Jem.
That would be truly outrageous.
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#33'Rock'-star? That's not rock.
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#34There's a good documentary on Hatsune Miku here - it's in Japanese but with English subtitles (click the 'CC' logo in the bottom right of the YouTube player to turn them on): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBZOlipfjkQ I find the Hatsune Miku phenomenon somewhat amusing at the moment, given the trend of overt Autotuning in pop music - while virtual singers' voices are getting more realistic, real singers' voices are b…
I guess its the next logical step. If the pop singer doesn't write their own song, doesn't sing their own song live, and doesn't understand the lyrics; you might as well just use a hologram.
I never realized how frightening a life sized version of an anime character is. Still, its an interesting phenomenon.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm starting to think Gibson is writing the future.
These days, he focuses on writing the present
But only because by his point of view, the present is effectively the future he looked forward to. I've always felt it's both an interesting and bold position for a writer of sci-fi to take.
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#36Wow! This reminds me of the book Idoru by Willam Gibson. Idoru on Wikipedia: "In the post Tokyo/San Francisco earthquake world of the early 21st century, Colin Laney is referred to agents of the aging mega-rock star Rez (of the musical group Lo/Rez, and seemingly very much styled after former The Smiths frontman, Morrissey) for a job using his peculiar talent of sifting through vast amounts of mundane data to find "n…
I'm starting to think Gibson is writing the future.
"The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibson#Visionary_influe...
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#37I guess The Archies were ahead of their time.
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#38I hate the future.
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#39Life imitates anime - anyone else get a Macross Plus flashback about the concept?
Indeed. That was the first thing I though: Macross!
It did not end very well. The movie/series explored a dark side of this tech.
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#40I have to admit, I'm getting a little uncanny-valley vibe from that. The movement is too crisp (they've got to be digitizing the movement of a human dancer?) in combination with the cartoony appearance.