Virtual Pop Star Hatsune Miku

I’ve been saying for a while that the world we live in right now makes the science fiction of yesteryear seem quaint.

In his 1996 novel Idoru, William Gibson imagined a Japanese pop star who didn’t exist in “meatspace,” but was computer-generated.

Now, 16 years later, one of Japan’s biggest pop stars is Hatsune Miku, who, as Wired explains, isn’t human:

She is a virtual idol, a holographic star. Miku is crowdsourced, ever-evolving, famous software. Not even he...