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Posted on April 17, 2012 by

Thoughts on Tupac Shakur’s Coachella appearance

So you’ve probably already heard: hologram technology has now advanced to the point where we can bring dead performers “back to life”. This week Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre’s festival-closing Coachella set featured a performance by a holographic Tupac Shakur. In case you missed it:

So do we really want to bring performers back from the dead? Especially when we’re putting words into their mouths that they couldn’t possibly have said during their lifetime.

Tupac gives a shoutout to Coachella – a festival that started in 1999, 3 years after his death.…