UKRAINE PERFORMATIVE PRESIDENT ZEKENSKIY NOW APPEARING AS 'STAR WARS' 3-D HOLOGRAM APPARITION

Intro: The former comedian and sitcom-star of 'Servant of The People', owner of his own media empire worth $20-$30 Millions of dollars, appeared as a larger-than-life augmented apparition at a Viva Technology conference in Paris.

“It’s an experiment and a digital revolution, and the modernisation of the current system all at the same time.” . .a unique chance to rebuild Ukraine as a fully digital democracy.

“No other country in the world will offer you such a chance to use the most advanced technologies at a state level,” he said.

He said the government would lay out the specifics of a plan that would create a digital government at a conference in Switzerland in the coming weeks.

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Hologram Zelenskiy promises Ukraine will defeat ‘the empire’

Ukrainian president attends Paris trade show as electronic apparition, urging tech companies to aid ‘digital revolution’ on lend-lease terms

( Volodymyr Zelenskiy delivers a speech in a 3D hologram projection at the Viva Technology conference in Paris. Photograph: Benoît Tessier/Reuters)

 

Thu 16 Jun 2022 19.53 EDT Staff and with Agence France-Presse
the Guardian |                        

"Volodymyr Zelenskiy referenced Star Wars and the second world war as the Ukrainian president appeared as a hologram at a conference in Paris to seek aid from big tech firms.

He told a crowd of hundreds at the VivaTech trade show that he was offering technology firms a unique chance to rebuild Ukraine as a fully digital democracy.

He asked for help on the terms of lend-lease – the way in which the United States helped the Allies during the second world war, offering aid without payment but on the understanding that hardware would be returned.

“It’s unusual for presidents or heads of government to use a hologram to address people but this is not the only aspect of Star Wars that we are putting into practice,” he said.

“We will defeat the empire too,” he said, likening Russian forces to the enemy in Star Wars. . ."

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