Idoru

Cyberpunk author William Gibson on Sarah Palin:

"Transitioning from politician to cultural idoru for a politically disenfranchised, permanently discontented ten percent of Americans."

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Sean Craven said…
Does that mean we can discorporate her and have her replaced with an AI and a stable of lookalikes for public appearances?

A Tamaguchi-style AI that the other ninety percent of the country can digitally torture-kill until she becomes boring and is forgotten would be nice...