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November 06, 2003

Miss Digital World

Hmmm. There's a website, Miss Digital World, where they're looking for photos of beautiful women. Not flesh and blood types, but the digital ones. As in, only digital. As posted on the Reuters website, this site is looking for the world's most beautiful woman made up of pixels.

So where could they take this? When thinking about future forecasts, always play it Good, Bad and Wildcard. Of course there are some who are going to decry this as some sort of exploitation, others will definitely bookmark the "under construction" site to check back to see how much better entrants improve upon nature.

Then again, from a Wildcard POV, one has to ask about those who really don't have a life away from their computers (and I would bet that of those who have been living through their computers are mostly not what we think of as computer geeks, but rather average desk jockeys who put more effort into their jobs than their lives) and how will computers respond to those unmet needs? How realistic can these graphics become and how personalized? Could it be determined by advertisers exactly what your ideal digital demo dolly would look like and then create all advertisements featuring that person? When you consider how much bandwidth has been growing,

So will someone make a digital image that will be acclaimed by many to be the most beautiful woman in the world? Will there be

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