Digital room mate

Not a robot, for a nifty bot wait a few years.

Imagine, you are up to no good in your government's eyes. Which means, you want to go down to the corner coffee shop and have that quadruple espresso macchiato with strawberry sirup and caramel. The drink named after you.

Imagine further that the NSA or some agency has the urge to know when you are home.

For now, they know you are home when you browse the web or watch tv (because you flip channels).

Imagine that you have a program on your computer that browses the web with its very own personality. You could be a brave GOP worker, a nerd, a desperate housewife, or a power girl, a doctor, a lawyer and more.

Of course, only from the point of view of your web followers.

The idea is not new. There was a Firefox plug-in that went to random web sites during your browsing to liven up what the web saw of you.

In these days of snoopy spooks, we need something more targeted. A tool that performs according to a desired age range, has a gender, political preferences and can do the odd email or two.

There should be some software bots out there that can be adapted with little work.

Once the tool behaves sufficiently like you, you can go for the coffee.  But leave the cell phone at home.

You can have even more fun buy making a new person, a digital room mate if you will.

Let's say, you are a young, idealistic animal rights activist, which means a terrorist for the modern day Western democrazies.  What you need to make your web presence less threatening is a conservative grandma with whom you share the apartment.

The Digital RoomMate can be configured to be that person. Put your new companion on that old unused laptop, and voila, you have just become God.

You have created an American citizen, or an Arab, or a Frenchman (they are difficult to configure).

Where you can download the tool?

Someone has to write it.