I had thought there was a rule on Wikipedia that they only report the birthdays of real people. But today one of the birthdays listed was of Walter White, the fictional protagonist of the TV show Breaking Bad.
For the record, the fictional Walter White was born on September 7, 1958. And the fact that his birthday was duly reported alongside the birthdays of real people opens a door to strange possibilities.
I suppose this is only to be expected in our current age of A.I. After all, some virtual on-line influencers these days have more followers than real influencers do.
But are we going down a slippery slope? Will we soon come to a time when the line between a real person and a fictional person becomes increasingly blurred, and eventually disappears altogether?
Maybe at some point fictional people will win the right to vote. I’m not sure I want to be around when that happens.