Second Blonde

To follow up on my last post, Technology is actually taking over the world.

The Matrix is real. It is! look: http://secondlife.com/

Why are we creating a world within a world?

"Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely created by its Residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by millions of Residents from around the globe. "

In this place you can create a vision of yourself, an avatar to represent you in this second world. You can be a respectable, say doctor by day, and by night on Second Life, you can become a dirty harlet! It's quite worrying to think that millions of people who inhabit Earth with us, have to leave their own real lives to enter second life and start a new one!

"Second Life is about personal expression and your avatar is the most personal expression of all. After all, an avatar is your persona in the virtual world. The picture below shows how easy it is to create your avatar. Despite offering almost infinite possibilities, the tool to personalize your avatar is very simple to use and allows you to change anything you like, from the tip of your nose to the tint of your skin. Don't worry if it's not perfect at first, you can change your look at any time. "

This website has become so large that recording artists actually play live on Second Life. A world within a world.A life within a life. In one sense its great, the person you feel you cant be in life you can be online, you can buy, create, build, meet people all on Second Life, but isnt that just slightly wrong? You are interacting with people yes, but through a machine, surely the machine has taken a larger role than just a way of communication, it has become your life.