notes-farFuture-plex

if your consciousness was running in a simulation, and you weren't in a hurry, it might be nice to have the ability to say, "i'd like to chat with my friend George right now". you could instruct the system to pause you until George wanted to chat with you. George would see a (passive) status indicator when he checked his friends' statuses that showed that you were waiting for him. when he felt like chatting with you, he would say to his system "i'd like to chat with my friend your_name right now", and it would unpause you and connect you. there would be a timeout in case he didn't feel like chatting for quite awhile, or ever.

the system that accomplishes this could be called "plex" (short for multiplex)