Ellis' Second Life

Warren Ellis announced that he will be doing a column about Second
Life for the Reuters news service. He seems pretty excited about the
new job, because of his "fascinations with the future, technology,
and digital living".

Lost? Second Life is, according to Wikipedia, "a privately owned... 3-
D virtual world". Not the kind of virtual world where you ride a
white tiger and kill goblins. The kind that has an economy, live
music, and 20,000 people logged on at any given moment.

Maybe Warren Ellis can look toward our virtual future with
excitement, but it scares the bejeezus out of me. Some people play
Second Life so much, it takes precedent over their, well, first life.
Which is fine for them, but if this is the future of humanity, I'm
logging out now. Sheesh.

-Elizabeth