Instagram's 'virtual' celebrities
This is a corporate ownership of personality.<p>Shudu is ageless, ever available, won&#x27;t do anything against the corporate image and can be bought and sold.<p>Ok, she is a generated personality but this will happen with real people too. Tom Cruise is too old to appear in action films? Well, his image won&#x27;t be.. even after he is dead and gone his image will be owned by a corporation. He won&#x27;t be too short to appear as Jack Reacher anymore either..  We might be lucky with some celebrities who are already dead, at least they will get left behind. Its difficult to know how this will affect new talent though, perhaps society will become sick of recorded images and turn to live events but I can see that the CGI power will increase such that these images can be generated live.<p>We already had some of this with Tupac of course