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Second Life in first gear (News, Telegraph)
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Written by Clark Columbia
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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
 Nik Berg goes for a drive in a computer-generated virtual world where the roads are empty, the cars are cheap and anything is possible.
In a world where you can fly like Superman or even teleport, Star Trek-style, across vast distances, cars are fast becoming the favourite form of transport.
Electric dreams: Second Life would be paradise with more realistic driving.
That world is Second Life - a virtual planet, populated by about 5.5 million virtual people, all living alternate existences free from the responsibilities and restrictions of real life.
Second Lifers enter this brave new world via their computer screens, creating virtual selves (known as avatars) and choosing virtual careers, love lives and entertainment. Second Life was opened to the public in 2003 and its population has been encouraged to create ever since. They've created dance clubs and clothes stores, shopping malls and surf shacks. In what has become a real, multi-million-dollar economy, people have built up property empires, political parties and even a mafia. And as if to prove how deeply cars are embedded in our culture, even in this limitless land, people are building, driving, buying and selling them.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk...
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