This means Facebook can now function as a virtual living room.

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With annual population growth of 2.3%, this implied a virtual standstill in living standards.

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Unless people start living in virtual buildings, there will always be plenty of bricks and mortar to trade.

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There are others out there who feel that the virtual life is not worth living.

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"A significant percentage of the world's population will be able to make a living working in virtual worlds, " says Booker.

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By 2020 an increasing number of people will be living and working within "virtual worlds" being more productive online than offline, the majority of the respondents said.

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Just as e-commerce brought a virtual shopping mall of products and services into every American living room, e-work can give any company, small or large, access to virtually any skill set they need.

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Yes, the uber-successful, sharp-witted freelance writer decided that making a living as a single mom required showing up in virtual drag.

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Or they can move about the living room to bat objects around on the screen, such as virtual lions and monkeys.

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The idea of bending over to pick up a virtual tennis racket in front of that 50-inch flat screen in our living room makes perfect sense to us.

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