Slashdot reports something interesting - people are spending real money in order to buy game money:

On ebay people are paying real money to buy WoW gold... while some guy in Korea murdered another guy over a rare sword that existed only in an MMORPG. This essay looks at the way more and more people are failing to draw a distinction between their real and online lives and takes it to its logical, yet utterly insane, conclusion.

Give technology a few years, and I think we'll start seeing people who want to live in cyberspace. Cue up the "Red Dwarf" music and hand out copies of "Better than Life"...