20 YEARS AGO, AL PACINO'S BEST SCI-FI SATIRE PREDICTED A TERRIFYING MODERN TREND

IN 2018, Instagram character Lil Miquela joined the likes of Rihanna, Kylie Jenner, and Donald Trump on Time’s listing of “25 Most

Influential People on the Internet.” One of these four is not like the different. And we’re now not speakme about the FBI’s current

man or woman of interest, either As her 3.1 million followers will already understand, Miquela is a CGI man or woman basically 

designed to promote numerou excessive-quit style labels. No diva tantrums. No agreement disputes. No career-wrecking tabloid 

controversie She’s every Svengali's dream The idea of the virtual celeb existed lengthy earlier than S1M0NE hit cinemas in 2002.

Just a yr in advance, Final Fantasy’s scientist Aki Ross had seemed, bikini-clad, on the front cover of Maxim to sell the online game 

phenomenon’ ill-fated foray onto the massive display screen. And who can forget the last ‘80s cyberpunk TV host Max Headroom? 

(Despite his glitchy appearance, the person wasn’t honestly computer-generated, but alternatively actor Matt Frewer in complete 

prosthetics.) However, author/director Andrew Niccol’s follow-up to Gattaca, a extra chilling have a look at attaining human perfection