Leaving the first life behind

This computer animation appears to have come straight from the mind of Phillip K Dick, whose science fiction writing, notably Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (adapted as Blade Runner) and We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (Total Recall) dealt with questions of identity and memory. A man appears on screen, chooses himself a skin and face and explains that he is leaving his carbon based self behind. Nothing particularly original about that except that the cartoon is actually the online diary of a Second Lifer. The eerie suspicion that many people are now spending more time in cyberspace than they are in the real world is lent a weird and disturbing credence here. This is the first entry and I am genuinely looking forward to the follow up.