14. 3Di: Defining Virtual Worlds Second Life is some unholy offspring of the movie The Matrix, the social networking site MySpace and the online marketplace eBay Business Week Sources: Business Week April 2006, The Economist. Living a Second Life, Sept. 28, 2006
15. Virtual World Economics Clearly of social activity migrates to synthetic worlds, economic activity will go there as well. The volume of annual trade in synthetic worlds already exceeds $2B Castranova