A possible future might see that people – while living in a virtual world – will be able to assume more identities. In one 'reality' a person can be a brother or a sister, in another a son or a daughter, in another a parent or a cousin… They can choose to be here a doctor and there a lawyer, or a gardener... or anything else! Will this mean that people will lose their own identity, that they might end up not knowing who they really are? A psychiatrist says that it is highly possible. The final, disturbing question: Will human beings reach a point where they prefer to live in a custom-made world? Will they opt for a life with virtual families, friends, jobs? At this point, who will operate in the real world? Will there be a real world anymore?
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