Sim Sim You

Let me try and explain this simply: As you eat, sleep, work, socialise with your friends, etc., your actions are captured by sensors and converted into a representation of yourself in some kind of simulated reality, similar to the game "The Sims".

However, this is not just about watching a simulated version of yourself. Instead, you watch, on your computer, a simulated games-player (e.g. a lank-haired teenage boy) 'playing' a simulation game which stars you, doing all the things you've been doing that day.

The clever bit is this: You actually control the simulated games-player through the actions you take and the choices you make in your daily life because the game-player's life needs to contain the motivation to 'make' you do these things. For example, if you decide to skip work and go skateboarding instead, in order to have the motivation to 'make' his Sim (i.e. you) do this, the games-player might have to have had a visit from his drop-out skateboarding friend. Do this a few times and the simulated games-player will himself drop out of school because of the need to have had enough visits from his skateboarding friend to 'make' you go skateboarding. Likewise if you enrol in a Spanish class, this might be 'because' the games-player is late with his Spanish homework.