virtual worlds

In the news article, from slashdot.com, "NASA Uses AI Customer Service Robot in Second Life" we find the advancing phenomeneon of living in a secondary world. The article descibes the use of "CYBERTWINS", or a clone of yourself that lives in a virtual world for you and acts and artificially functions as you. The interesting fact in the article is that NASA is using this technology. They feel that these cybertwins can help improve their cutomer service responses when interacting in virtual worlds. It can be noted that this trend of existing simultaneously in a virtual world will inevitably lead to forms of regualtion from the government, especially if it deals with the term clonig and having multiple lives, so to speak. This trend seems to forecast at potential problems with identity, integrity, and dual lives. In the future, as this way of existing increases, how can we maintain solid environments that do not cause problems in peoples lives socially, economically, and even at a moral level. These question will inevitably arise, but onl;y the future particpants can explore and, hopefully, create rules and regulations that help these virtual world exist positively and succesfully.