Virtualization

I've been thinking about "virtualization" in various senses this week.

First of all, I've recently read some SF in which some characters are living (or might be living) in a virtual world that might be a subprocess of our own reality. I'm thinking both of Jonathan Lethem's brilliant novel Chronic City and of Christopher Shay's great Flurb story "IntheBeginning."

Secondly, I've been listening to my son, Rudy, Jr., talking about how his and Alex Menendez's internet company, Monkeybrains, can s...