Miku is a phenomenon, even if she's primarily a phenomenon in Japan. She's also a pop star whose hologram has sung before sold-out crowds and has even performed on The Late Show with David Letterman. Hatsune Miku is a vocaloid, a virtual persona of a voice synthesis profile developed by Yamaha. It was about a computer-generated Japanese idol singer and a series of strange repercussions that come from having such a powerful pop culture icon who's completely virtual. While it isn't the best cyberpunk novel out there (I prefer Dick, myself), it showed the sort of disturbingly prescient future imagery Gibson is known for. Twenty years ago, William Gibson wrote Idoru.
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