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Imagine in a few years, virtual technology has been developed, allowing people to appear as themselves on the Internet, like in Futurama. Every household is given the equipment to use this virtual technology. Serebii and Bulbapedia (not all websites have) already have upgraded to this technology, but PC has just announced it will upgrade next week. This technology is optional, you could choose to appear in your full form, or still appear in a forum form, but you can only make the choice during this week. When it comes to posts in threads, in the virtual form you'll see a board where members voice record their questions and you just respond to them. These recordings are then saved and then saved in a file for you to access later if you wish. As for discussions, they are recorded too and transcribed into text form automatically for those who chose not to visit virtual PC ever. Oh, and moderators no longer exist at all, because the technology automatically decides if content is appropriate or not. You will also be screened in terms of what you can and can't wear before entering virtual PC. Styles can also be developed in terms of the background, setting etc for virtual PC users but instead of individually choosing, they change every week and it's up to the technology to make the choice of what those styles are. You'll also never be able to see any of your past posts in a post form, but rather a monotone recording provided by the technology.
You must decide in the next week if you want all your future access to PC to be virtual or not. On the other hand, you can leave PC altogether and just contact your friends through alternate methods.
If you choose for your full form to appear you'll get to see all other PC members who opted to do this but there's a chance you'll probably converse with others who use the forum less in favour of the ones who use virtual PC. If you don't, you'll get to use PC just as you do now, but you miss out on the feeling of really being with everyone else - though you can wear whatever you want and do whatever you want and nobody cares.
What's your choice? And do you think there are any other downfalls to either options that haven't been mentioned?
And finally, would you like something like this to really happen?
You must decide in the next week if you want all your future access to PC to be virtual or not. On the other hand, you can leave PC altogether and just contact your friends through alternate methods.
If you choose for your full form to appear you'll get to see all other PC members who opted to do this but there's a chance you'll probably converse with others who use the forum less in favour of the ones who use virtual PC. If you don't, you'll get to use PC just as you do now, but you miss out on the feeling of really being with everyone else - though you can wear whatever you want and do whatever you want and nobody cares.
What's your choice? And do you think there are any other downfalls to either options that haven't been mentioned?
And finally, would you like something like this to really happen?
