BBC NEWS | Technology | Putting a face to 'Big Brother': "Literally putting a face on technology could be one of the keys to improving our interaction with hi-tech gadgets.
Imagine a surveillance system that also presents a virtual embodiment of a person on a screen who can react to your behaviour, and perhaps even alert you to new e-mails.
Basic versions of these so-called avatars already exist. Together with speech and voice recognition systems, they could replace the keyboard and mouse in the near future."
The future. You better believe it, and you better think it is cool... or else you'll be stuck in, well, the past. This is the beginning of the commercialized future of 'Big Brother Is Watching'!