Tell me we aren't living in a William Gibson novel.

[FiveGoodMen]

http://www.avclub.com/article/hologram-pop-star-embarks-north-american-tour-228376

[FSogol]

1. "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." - William Gibson

[pengu]

2. Idoru, if I recall my Gibson correctly?

[TM99]

3. Well she is no worse

than any other pop star using Auto-tune.

I have played with Vocaloid but prefer Plogue Chipspeech and Alter/Ego. If I am going to go synthetic, well, let's go full on synthetic & robotic.

[JackInGreen]

4. We are. Miku is Rei

And in 30 years I'm going to be The Finn.

I'm ok with this as long as it comes with a hosaka or a sendai deck.

[DetlefK]

5. Where have you been for the last years??? Of course we already are:

Google "biohacker".
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/18/the-brave-new-worldofbiohacking.html
http://www.livescience.com/40892-biohacker-tim-cannon-cyborg.html

http://america.aljazeera.com/content/ajam/articles/2013/10/18/the-brave-new-worldofbiohacking/jcr:content/mainpar/textimage/image.adapt.990.high.biohacking_hp1a.1406128967948.jpg
A magnet implanted in a finger-tip.

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An electronic device implanted into a fore-arm.

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We can transmit simple commands from brain to brain.

We have cybernetic limbs.

And an artificial eye of the type "Argus II" costs a few ten-thousand bucks. (Well, it's still not very good, but it's better than being blind.)

A german research-group has developed an implant that creates electricity from your blood-sugar. The MIT has built and implanted a working prototype. (They are supposed to replace the batteries in pace-makers.)