Simulated Worlds

Well, better late then never as it is said. I'm am slowly trying to get on track with my self between school and Spain so to say.

My thoughts on simulated worlds.

There are many kinds of simulated worlds, online and off-line. Online we have Second Life, WOW and so on. Off-line we have Disneyland and other fairylands.
Simulated worlds are places that are built up to meet or inner desires, to for fill a fantasy of our.
Simulated worlds can in some ways complete the real world that we live in.
However, the real world and simulated worlds online has started to interfere with each other. I read the other week an article about a man in china that earns his living by playing WOW. And that there are people living of SL by building and selling houses and land to other members. In SL there is also a currency that goes hand in hand with the US dollar. What you earn in Linden $ you can get out in US $. It is just like going to another country.

When did simulated worlds stop for fill our psychological needs and started to replace our physical needs? Ones no one knew how you were in an online world, now it is all about making money and get a profit out of it.

/cecilia