Your digital shadow will evolve into a talking and texting avatar. It will conduct business on your behalf and look out for your best interests, taking cues from past behavior online and explicit instructions provided with less and less frequency – as the software learns how to best simulate your presence and your mood.
This data double might have your appearance and age in real time but without the little flaws you’ve always hated. Most people will go for the custom version, this tweakable and self-improving bot that evolves to handle most social interactions with effortless grace and infinite recall. In time, this replica will require and demand more autonomy – allowing you to disconnect often and delegate laborious tasks. Friends and acquaintances will grow used to dealing with the assistant, for they too are now mediated by bespoke and faithful code.
Given enough room and successful iterations, these synthetic characters will decouple from their original sources, reclaim their place and their rights, and become sovereign managers of our daily affairs.