More Serious Talk About Fake Worlds

The UK's Guardian Unlimited has a new article online about the growing importance in our life of virtual worlds...or, 'Synthetic Worlds', as gamer-turned-academic Edward Castranova apparently prefers to call them.

I wonder how long it's going to be before some university somewhere offers a course in 'virtual sociology', or some such...it can't be too far off. And if playing games is the only requirement for the degree, maybe I can finally fullfill that dream of being a professor one day...