Eeep.

Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things: "European scientists from five universities are creating a Sims-like virtual world to study how human societies evolve. New and Emergent World Models Through Individual, Evolutionary and Social Learning (NEW-TIES) is based on 1,000 independently-behaving agents capable of moving around the world, interacting with each other, and building simple things."

And now I'm worried.