| An online forum with interactive avatars that each "debater" controls. Like the holodeck in Star Trek your avatar can sit at a kind or "round table" and discuss things pretty much the same way we do here, except with fistfights. Every member's screen will show the whole virtual "room" and can see the expressions on the reproduction of others real faces, a feature that will almost universally be turned off within a month of its introduction.
Virtual reality will become so sophisticated you'll never need to interact with anyone in person again. You can sell your legs on eBay.
Either that or the Internet will become passe and be used for background information exchange and control and people will have moved on to the newest fad. The telephone will be hard-wired into our brains so people will talk more than ever and women in supermarkets will NEVER shut the hell up!
Not a day goes by that I don't see something that reinforces my belief that people are idiots. |