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It's amazing how Gibson predicted this sort of thing almost 20 years ago: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Idoru https://secure.wikimedia.org/wiki
by w1ntermute 15y ago
It's amazing how Gibson predicted this sort of thing almost 20 years ago: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Idoru https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Idoru
- Klinky 15y agoThe 1994 anime "Key: The Metal Idol" had a similar idea as well. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Key_the_Metal_Idol https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Key_the_Metal... We could also even go back to Fritz Langs's 1927 film Metropolis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_%28film%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_%28film%29
- FiddlerClamp 15y agoI was thinking "Sim0ne" from 2002 with Al Pacino: "A producer's film is endangered when his star walks off, so he decides to digitally create an actress to substitute for the star, becoming an overnight sensation that everyone thinks is a real person."
- sireat 15y agoAs far as animes go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megazone_23 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megazone_23 was probably first, came out in 1985. The plot development is rather horrible, but idea wise very infuential.
- johnyzee 15y agoGood call, 'Wintermute' :) Gibson's stuff seems to never feel old, a remarkable achievement for sci-fi stuff from before the internet era.
- lani 15y agocame in to mention gibson ... btw, I thought Gorillaz was halfway there to Idoru...
- VMG 15y agoThis whole thing also gives off a a strong Philip K. Dick vibe.
- mechanical_fish 15y agoGibson, who is after all the guy who said "the future is already here; it's just not evenly distributed yet", might well point you to patio11's comment, and to various Media Lab-type demos from twenty years ago, and then ask: Was it not obvious that this would happen? You've also politely failed to notice that Gibson, along with many other people, believed the hype about AI twenty years ago. ;) Gibson's great because he notices things. For example, I will be eternally grateful for all the Joseph Cornell stuff in Count Zero because it prompted me to go see a show full of actual Joseph Cornell boxes, which are wonderful and are exactly as Gibson described them.
- StavrosK 15y agoWhat is the Joseph Cornell stuff? All I could find was a Wikipedia mention of some boxes, but no actual description.
- mechanical_fish 15y agoRead Count Zero and you will learn all about Joseph Cornell. Not facts, mind you, but you will learn what Cornell's work feels like. The Cornell exhibition I went to see is, alas, closed now: http://www.amazon.com/Joseph-Cornell-Lynda-Roscoe-Hartigan/dp/0300111622/ref=pd_sim_b_4 http://www.amazon.com/Joseph-Cornell-Lynda-Roscoe-Hartigan/d... ...and all the boxes are back in the hands of various collectors. But modern art museums have them in smaller numbers. I saw a few of them at the Art Institute of Chicago, for example.
- ChrisArchitect 15y agoawesome, was totally going to bring this up.
- lloeki 15y agoBefore that ('94) there was Sharon Apple in Macross Plus: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Macross_plus https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Macross_plus The Japanese culture at large is quite in phase with virtual stuff and robots.