“What did Blackwell mean, last night, about Rez wanting to marry a Japanese girl who isn’t real?” “Idoru,” Yamazaki said. “What?” “ ‘Idol-singer.’ She is Rei Toei. She is a person-ality-construct, a congeries of software agents, the creation of information-designers. She is akin to what I believe they call a ‘synthespian,’ in Hollywood.”
““What did Blackwell mean, last night, about Rez wanting to marry a Japanese girl who isn’t real?”
“Idoru,” Yamazaki said.
“What?”
“ ‘Idol-singer.’ She is Rei Toei. She is a person-ality-construct, a congeries of software agents, the creation of information-designers. She is akin to what I believe they call a ‘synthespian,’ in Hollywood.”
Reference
Gibson, William (1996, Sep. 4). “Idoru.” Kindle Edition. Chapter 13 Character Recognition, p. 91 of 263, 33%.
