Tamagotchi Generation

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• A new book has predicted that by the third quarter of this century, parents will have the choice of having digital offspring.
  • This will be the ‘Tamagotchi Generation’.

About ‘Tamagotchi’ Generation

• The name comes from the digital pet created by the Japanese toy manufacturer Bandai, which was a global rage in the 1990s and early years of this century.
• It will just be the Metaverse version for those who might want them. 

• As of 2021 , more than 80 million Tamagotchi toys have been sold worldwide.

• The toy is an egg-shaped video game the size of a keychain, which has a screen and buttons. 
• Once the pet is activated, an egg appears on the screen, and hatches into a pet for the player to raise. 
• The pets feel hungry, happy, sick, and want to go to the toilet etc., and the player can care as much or as little for the pet as they desire. 
• Pet’s growth depends on its training of the player.
• Advantages:
  • They will cost virtually nothing to bring up, they will consume very little resources in a world 
  • They will have a tiny environmental footprint from beginning to end.
  • It could help us solve some of today’s most pressing issues, including overpopulation.

Source:IE