This possibility is investigated in the field of Artificial Life, here we study processes that resemble those common to the life we know, yet implemented in very alien ways. Our creatures live in silicon, their bodies are made up of patterns of light inhabiting a computer core, they evolve in ways similar to natural life, mutating, having sexual relations, competing for space and time. In this world of tomorrow we see, speeded up a thousand fold, natural selection in action coupled with a new phenomenon, that of self-organization. These systems evolve themselves to an edge of chaos state, the operating parameter that allows them to adapt most efficiently to changes in their environment. This is exactly the same state that we see in natural and human systems, leading many to claim that we have now succeeded in playing God, we have created life itself...