One-way ticket to Mars and a year in Utopia. There are a lot of volunteers to be found. A characteristic of both missions is that the participants are completely anonymous , as the opposite of anonymous. Everyone – the viewers, the directors, the participants – knows exactly who is who. There are no doppelgangers, maybe there are nicknames, but then we know who it is about.
There are names on the Mars suits, like a football player has his name on brazil mobile phone number list his shirt. In the factory hall of Utopia, residents have a mug with their first name on it, every movement is registered, every word is recorded and the control room decides what is shown to the viewers.
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Different online identities
All participants knew this in advance, all participants who have stepped out of a system in which it is possible to assume different identities as the same person. You tweet as Grotebeuker, Facebook as Lievelisa, and Snapchat as Ieniewienie. Computer technology has made it possible for communication between people to be anonymous.