In the future a speaker may be able to send an avatar out to speak.
The "real" speaker could be home or back stage broadcasting through the avatar. If subject dealt with women's issues a man could come out in a female avatar or vice versa. If a speaker was
not feeling well, this would be awesome way to give the speech without standing up in front of audience.
A speaker could give speech in person and use avatars or maybe holograms to demonstrate something, perhaps a difficult yoga pose.
The use of avatars for this purpose would never replace a person actually being there themselves. If a speaker never showed up in person, people may lose trust in the speaker as authenticity -- literally.
Beyond avatars, would be actual lifelike robots or androids with advanced AI capabilities. A synthetic of this complexity could probably actually pass the Turing Test. A speaker could send a synthetic on stage to give the speech for one reason or another.
Also, like the avatars, synthetics would be great for demonstrations.
I believe the demonstration function would be better than sending
such a replacement out to give the actual speech. We humans need to be more authentic then that as well as facing our fears of public speaking head on.
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