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- www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00g15rt/Click_29_11_2008



While i was looking for something to watch on the bbc website, a link catched my attention "Dan Simmons witnesses the VIRTUAL REBIRTH of Berlin and London". In this programme they spoke about a kind of virtual life that take place on the web: a copy of yourself goes around into a virtual word doing what you don't have the courage or the opportunite to do in reality. Let's go into detail... You have a perfect reconstrucion of the city, in this case Berlin, and your virtual-self can wander around: walk on the street, go shopping or have a drink in pubs and discos that exist in the authentic Berlin. Even the social environment is developed: there are a lot of people that,like you, have created our own character and you have the possibility to talk with them. In other worlds, a person who lives for example in London can rebirth in Berlin, buy a house and found relations without moving from a chair! Jochen Hummel, one of the co-funder of this progect, shows how take advantages of an online world: it's a way to explor new places, it's good for shopping, work collaboration, dates and education. He also add that, entering in this world, you are not escaping from your real life. After the end of this video I spent 10 minutes thinking how would be my virtual-self, my copy... and, to be honest with you, I'm really bewildered about this surreal word. In my opinion this is a prove that we are not able to build direct relationship, computer and thecnology take the place of the self and the language- the art of speaking. The internet is an irreplaceable facility to do a lot of things but it can't replace the concrete life. We are human, made of blood and flesh, we prove emotions and we have our eyes to look at the reality or in someone else's eyes.. How a computer screen and a keyboard could replace this? There is no way. Having said that, I would like to encourage people to find their place into the true world before start a "parallel existence" in the web one.