TROPOLISM

We don't believe in virtual reality. Tropolism means it's all just real. That belief has wonderfully not impeded virtual worlds from springing forth, and virtual real estate enough to keep a thousand Curbeds up and running. The folks at Rocketboom have interviewed (and toured) the first citizen of Second Life to build a skyscraper. And what a sky it scrapes! You'll be happy to note he did so without the aid of any computer design tools.

I've always theorized that architectural aspirations exist in all of us. This is appropriate: we all inhabit spaces that were designed or built by others, and so it it only natural we would have opinions about them. In Second Life, you can create your own space. One skyscraper at a time, if you have the patience for it.