Surrealtors
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Only the most skilled designers of virtual environments can claim
the
title of surrealtor. Practitioners of this interdisciplinary art are
part architect, part computer programmer, part artist and part
psychotherapist. Most surrealty offices employ teams of specialists,
but the most celebrated surrealtors are those rare few savants who have
the skills and talents to work alone.
A surrealtor creates a virtual world that is carefully tailored to the
client's tastes, intellectual capacity and emotional maturity. The
environment may also contain elements that have therapeutic effects
on a client's phobias or neuroses. A properly designed environment must
change as its inhabitant develops; all surrealtors program their works
to respond to even the smallest changes in a client's personality.
Designing an environment that must house multiple beings is an even
greater challenge. The most common job for surrealtors is designing
environments for virtuals
who are
recently uploaded from a physical form; a well-designed virtual
world can greatly aid the transition. Not
surprisingly, many of the best surrealtors are virtuals who used to be
bionts, vecs, or members of
some other embodied sophont clade. Still
others are post-virtuals who have downloaded into physical bodies.
Either way, it is clear that having experience in both the virtual and
material worlds is a powerful advantage in this line of work.
