>From the <a href="http://jwbats.blogspot.com/2005/08/future-of-virtual-environments.html">Our Technological Future</a> blog: <span style="font-style: italic;">Marshall Brain, founder of the very successful </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.howstuffworks.com/">
www.howstuffworks.com</a><span style="font-style: italic;">, is writing a book entitled </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://marshallbrain.com/discard.htm">The Day You Discard Your Body</a><span style="font-style: italic;">
. The
book paints a picture of how <span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 255);">humanity will, eventually, make the
transition from our current, real life, meat-world into Virtual
Environments</span> (VE). The way Marshall describes it in his book is,
of course, one of the many possible ways this transition could be made. [See also] </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://jwbats.blogspot.com/2005/07/singularity-faq-for-dummies.html">Singularity FAQ for Dummies
</a><span style="font-style: italic;">. It explains exponential acceleration, and the implications of it. We
won't have to wait for VE's to become audiovisually immersive for a
long time. Those type of VE's will be here very shortly. Read </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://jwbats.blogspot.com/2005/08/future-of-computers-2.html">The Future Of Computers</a><span style="font-style: italic;">
 for details.</span>