news.telegraph.co.uk - Robot stars 'will be the top earners by 2010'
By David Derbyshire, Science Correspondent
Filed: 18/01/2002
IN an age when the manufactured celebrity has become commonplace, scientists made a grim prediction for the future of showbusiness yesterday.

By 2010, the world's highest earning actor, pop star or model will be a synthetic "celeb-bot", whose looks, voice and personality are generated by computers.
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