They'll take the "G" out of "MMORPG."

We'll stop thinking of the online world as a game right around the time you find yourself strolling through Witchblade Village, or some such fictional online town, and see a Target store open there. You'll enter it just like you do the in-game stores, and you'll be able to view the merchandise in real time 3D, pick up objects and turn them over in your virtual hands, and buy them the same as if you did it on www.igamei.com.

So now our fledgling metaverse isn't just a place to slay computer-generated dragons and Nazis. Now, it's where you go to shop, to chat, to have cybersex with actual nudity and everything.

Just think of how porn changes when the user also gets to go in with the toned body of an underwear model. It'll make our current online porn look like just the tip of the assberg.

The joy of experiencing life as Awesome You, as the stronger, handsomer avatar of yourself, will take all of those activities to another plane of cool. The casinos will be there, the movies will play there, concerts will be performed there. The metaverse will stop being a playhouse and will start becoming the interface through which we interact with reality. And every step you take will be as Awesome You. Cool, beautiful, confident.