Whitney Houston is going on tour again very soon. Just to be clear…This is an A.I. version. She passed away a long time ago. I just happen to have written a story about this phenomenon called: “See The Beatles…LIVE!” And the story is available in one of my Books entitled: “The Future Is Closer Than you Think- Tales From The Day After Tomorrow”…I think it’s “book 1”
Virtual concerts are coming. Frank Zappa is already on tour I hear…Competeing with his son for audiences I’d gather. There are others and this field will only grow. I’ll bet they’re going through HI Rez footage at the Michael Jackson “compound” as well. This phenomenon will usher in another facet of A.I. integrating into our lives. In a very short while, I’d imagine that if you wanted you might have a conversation with Ms Houston or (shudder) Mr Zappa (who was famous for not suffering fools!) or even Tupac Shakur who has already hit the touring “road” as an A.I. “Construct”, doing his tuunage.
The difference is: we know that this is a conceit and agree to it…But what happens when (NOT if!) the “powers that be” decide to trot out some other “star” and it might be without permission, or without proper support, or -even worse- without a real knowledge of who this person was …Here, I’m thinking, Janice Joplin, Jim Morrison or Jimi Henmdrix…The only thing stopping “them” (for now) is the dearth of high quality film that might be translated into a high quality 3D hologaphic image, but with technology running far ahead of us into the future, can anyone who has ever been filmed ever be out of reach? Your Grandma..a lost child? A lost love? All this and more will be available- for a price. So go see the amazing talent that was Whitney Houston, but be aware of what is happening, because within our lifetime, that distinction might not be evident.
