Aimi Eguchi is a 16-year old music star in Japan, with a loyal following of several thousands of fans. She lives north of Tokyo, has an official website, and enjoys track and field sports.

And she doesn’t exist outside of a hard drive.

Good friend and fellow blogger Lee Shelton was the first to draw my attention to the intriguing but also unsettling story of Aimi Eguchi: a computer-generated composite of six different girls, who until now had fooled many people into believing she was a real flesh and blood person…

Click here for more about Aimi Eguchi’s “biography”.

I’m telling you people here and now: one of these days, this is going to be an American politician who “runs” for office. Whether or not it wins is a commentary that I shall leave as an exercise for the reader…