At MyCyberTwin people can make their own digital replica. After a short profile 79 questions follow, psychologically sound, which determine your CyberTwin's character. You then can have your CyberTwin represent you in various way. I just created CyberErwin. Thus your CyberTwin can chat with people through the website, but it can also log in under your account name in Windows Live Messenger. It even is possible (but you have to pay for it) to have your digital self appear in Second Life. (a href="http://www.fan.tv/digitaal/toontext.asp?id=18835" title="ft">ft, Dutch).
We might find it strange, but in the future we will have ourselves represented by virtual personalities more and more. We have been used to voice mail for a long time: a standard message you recorded yourself, which is repeated. Everyone gets the same message, be they English, German, or Dutch, but we can live with that inconvenience. The Out-Of-Office messages in Outlook belong to the same category. While with this type of chatbots we can make a step forwards, and have frequently asked questions answered automatically. After all, it is quite irritating to have to keep repeating the answer to the same question over and over again. This inconvenience will slowly disappear. And this step marks the careful start.