The graphics in computer games have come a long way. Sometimes I think I'd like to live in the environments they are creating these days.

Outside in the real world, I was having a cigarette yesterday. It was a beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky. The area where we smoke has a well manicured carpet of bermuda grass. There are three of four trees, all with perfectly round patches of dirt at their base. There are flower beds - square and ordered. Of in the distance is the monorail to the canal.

Our building, and those around us are architectural testaments to 20 year old CAD software. Point click, point click.

I thought of flying over the breadbasket in a jet. Seeing square fields of different colors. Mile after mile of them.

I can look at a map of this city or most cities in america, and I will see a grid system with nice straight roads, with areas for residences, areas for business, all nicely stamped out.

Perhaps the Borg have made some clandestine trip into the past and are even now sucking us into their collective consciousness.Resistance is Futile. You will be assimilated.

Now I know why I want to be in the computer games. The worlds they created are designed to look natural. With fractal algorithms generating woodland scenes and rivers that appear natural.

The world around us, on the other hand, is more and more being designed on computers, and - what's worse - looks like its been designed on a computer.

Ironically, the increase in escapism, the desire of so many people to play in computer generated worlds may well be because the real world is getting too much like a computer....