Ms. Greenfield worries her mind over the human race because of an addictive videogame. Might offer some insight into the minds of those scientists that try to get Video Game Addiction into the medical books. She suggests we may all fall into the peril of becoming loners without real relationships and real sex.

At the end, there's a nice comment about how Second Life could actually be a juicy place for sociological research. Hmmm...

Baroness Greenfield wondered whether people who inhabited virtual worlds would come to regard real-life sexual relationships with some queasiness.

"Could it be that in the future they will say, 'A real relationship! Urgh, how horrible,' " she said. "The messiness and squalor of the real world, and the real-time element, might be offset by the more sanitised, two-dimensional reality of Second Life.

FRoGBuster via telegraph.co.uk »