Second Life still creeps me out a bit, in a good way. I like being a bystander to the virtual world — it’s amazing to watch the hysterical wildness (and depravity) that humans carry out when the constraints of daily reality are lifted.
But whenever SL devotees declare they’re going to break my resistance and bring me “in world,” I balk (maybe because they’re using terms like “in world”). That being said, I’ll never get tired of writing about the fascinating things going on in there. Like teaching (real) medical and nursing students to save (real) lives using SL simulations. Hey, they’ve gotta learn it from somewhere — and in medicine, “learning on the job” isn’t exactly what you want when you’re the one on the table hemorrhaging to death.
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