Japan's Latest Rock Star Is A 3D Hologram - Draws Huge Crowds

Re:Japan's Latest Rock Star Is A 3D Hologram - Draws Huge Cr... by BjornW on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @11:17AM (#1886891)

Wow! 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 "nodal points" of particular relevance. Rez has claimed to want to marry a synthetic personality named Rei Toei, the Idoru (Japanese Idol) of the title, which is apparently impossible and therefore questioned by his loyal staff, particularly by his head of security, Blackwell.[...]" source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idoru

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Re:Japan's Latest Rock Star Is A 3D Hologram - Draws Huge Cr... by corysama on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @02:23PM (#1887583)

This is one case where Gibson was slightly behind. Japan has been looking forward to holographic rock stars since Macross Plus in 1994 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKcud4Qs4_U#t=4m50s) --just ahead of Idoru (1996).

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Re:Japan's Latest Rock Star Is A 3D Hologram - Draws Huge Cr... by zacharycohn on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @03:26PM (#1887780)

This reminds me of a short cyberpunk story. I can't remember the name/author, but it was about a world where the next level of entertainment was essentially generated from a brainmap of the "artist." There was a girl who was disabled/disfigured/diseased, and she ended up becoming the biggest and most popular artist ever due to the raw emotions she was conveying.

At the end she transfers her consciousness "to the cloud" and becomes completely digitized.

Anyone else read this?

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Re:Japan's Latest Rock Star Is A 3D Hologram - Draws Huge Cr... by srcerer on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @04:30PM (#1887986)

Also Gibson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Winter_Market

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Re:Japan's Latest Rock Star Is A 3D Hologram - Draws Huge Cr... by zacharycohn on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @04:38PM (#1888022)

Bingo, thanks.

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Re:Japan's Latest Rock Star Is A 3D Hologram - Draws Huge Cr... by nathanielksmith on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @05:06PM (#1888134)

This sounds like a really interesting story. Thanks for the tip.

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Re:Japan's Latest Rock Star Is A 3D Hologram - Draws Huge Cr... by barber on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @11:34AM (#1886960)

I'm starting to think Gibson is writing the future.

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Re:Japan's Latest Rock Star Is A 3D Hologram - Draws Huge Cr... by aaronbrethorst on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @01:47PM (#1887464)

"The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibson#Visionary_influe...

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Re:Japan's Latest Rock Star Is A 3D Hologram - Draws Huge Cr... by vcrash on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @01:00PM (#1887299)

These days, he focuses on writing the present

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Re:Japan's Latest Rock Star Is A 3D Hologram - Draws Huge Cr... by mrcharles on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @01:39PM (#1887434)

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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Re:Japan's Latest Rock Star Is A 3D Hologram - Draws Huge Cr... by ghshephard on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @05:26PM (#1888210)

Does this mean that sometime soon, Gibson will be writing historical fiction?

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Re:Japan's Latest Rock Star Is A 3D Hologram - Draws Huge Cr... by chipsy on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @07:25PM (#1888616)

In one sense, he already has.

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Re:Japan's Latest Rock Star Is A 3D Hologram - Draws Huge Cr... by Jd on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @12:20PM (#1887137)

Also a significant discussion of this phenomenon in PK Dick's VALIS trilogy

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Re:Japan's Latest Rock Star Is A 3D Hologram - Draws Huge Cr... by zacharycohn on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @04:39PM (#1888030)

VALIS was a trilogy? What were the other two books (aside from the obvious VALIS)?

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Re:Japan's Latest Rock Star Is A 3D Hologram - Draws Huge Cr... by nathanielksmith on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @05:09PM (#1888141)

Divine Invasion, VALIS, and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (perhaps not in that order).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VALIS_trilogy

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