First of all, a lot of people have been saying how's it no different to watching a recorded live video, listening to a CD, or a waxwork model. Well, it is in a totally different league. Hologramming (sic) itself isn't really the issue, it is just an extension of a drawing or a model but the problem comes with what you do with this hologram.
My issue is one about probably my favourite art form- the art of live performance. To me, it's one of the most raw, emotional, and real things you can experience- an artist or musician expressing themselves, living in that moment with the audience. A hologram is just a completely different thing, it's lifeless- everything about live performance does not exist within it.
So at this point it still seems very much the same as a past video or something. But trying to make out like this person is real, is just completely disrespectful to the legacy that artist left behind and to the entire art form itself. That person is dead, surely you don't need to be especially spiritual or superstitious to see that trying to bring this person back to life, through no will of their own, and get them to 'perform' as they did when they were alive, is wrong. As a friend put it- you may as well dig up their body and use them as a ventriloquist dummy.
On another note, dead artists had their time. We should be looking to spend our money on new things instead of supporting this disrespect, and at any rate, what is a purely a money-grabbing exercise.
Live performance is a sacred thing, let's keep it alive.
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