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Some say technology will eventually transport everything on our planet into cyberspace.
Avatars will replace humans on the fairly reasonable grounds that humans are unreliable, profligate of the planet's goodies and not smart enough to listen to Al Gore.
Did I hear someone say: 'Second Life has done that already?' Certainly, and the encouraging aspect of that is that many Second Lifers seem to have become bored by it and rejoined the real world. Virtual steak and chips may look good but it's not like the real thing.
Yet should you wish to dip a toe just slightly into the virtual waters, try adding a virtual fish tank to your computer screen. It won't cost a thing and you don't have to feed the fish.
It is a widget, one of thousands available from a variety of sites: Apple, Yahoo, Google and many others.
Widgets are the Santa's helpers of the world wide web. They are bits of computer code that can be embedded in a web page to provide extra information, such as a clock, a weather report, a calculation or entertainment.
The fish tank, which Apple rates among its top 50 widgets, is, of course, just for fun. It is a 2-megabyte download from tinyurl.com/c2ldqq. The 'bloop-bloop' bubble noises are a bit unrealistic but you can turn off the sound. Otherwise it is a pretty little diversion from the toils of the real world.
More useful is Ambrosia Software's envelope-printing widget. It will pull in addresses from Address Book or you can type in from scratch. All standard envelope sizes are covered and any of your fonts may be used. You can even add a graphic to the return address. You need Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. Find it at tinyurl.com/3cmqjz.
I would have recommended the ABC's Radio Widget but it seems to have a bug and could not find the Real Player plug-in it needs to stream Auntie's broadcasts. I had it running on a previous iMac and if you can get it working it's a nice little widget.
Find it at tinyurl.com/nbe7ms, where there is also a link to the Real Player download site. The BBC has a similar widget (tinyurl.com/m9adg3).
Feeling your military oats? Want to slither through the virtual jungle, popping off terrorists? Try the 3D Paradise Paintball widget. Find it at tinyurl.com/68nxyl.
Or what about playing astronaut with Earth, a widget-eye view of our space rock from somewhere out where the firmament is black and a strong feeling of loneliness is one of the risks of the job.
Earth, the widget, is quite lovely; the planet rotates in dignified fashion on your screen, showing regularly updated satellite images of itself. It is at tinyurl.com/an8md6.
Widgets are great for conversions, including language; well, translation is the better word. Go to tinyurl.com/57dfbn for the Language Translator widget. It uses Google's translator and can handle 41 languages.
A good unit converter is a must. Try the one from the 'Arabian Oil Company' at tinyurl.com/17qvev. Or a currency converter from tinyurl.com/6p5d8y.
There are about 5000 Apple widgets available on the web; nothing compared with the more than 65,000 iPhone apps but still a great resource.
And they are free!