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No Country for Young Men - by Terminally_Drifting

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Thirty-five years inside the world's gentlest collapse

There is a man in Tokyo named Akihiko Kondo who married a hologram in 2018, and your reaction to that sentence already tells you everything about why you cannot help him. The wedding cost two million yen. Thirty-nine guests. His family did not attend. The bride, projected by a tabletop appliance called Gatebox, was a teal-pigtailed singing software product named Hatsune Miku, technically owned by Crypton Future Media, technically free to be married by anyone who could afford the appliance and the ceremony. Kondo wore a white tuxedo. He bowed at the angles he had been raised to bow at. The…

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