Interestingly enough virtual worlds can be viewed as nerdy and useless. It posses the idea of, “hey lazy, get up and go outside and meet some real people”. But come to find out based on the lecture notes and the video they are real people and real lives in virtual worlds. According to, “Avatar II: The Hospital” from The Wall Street Journal, students used a virtual world to demonstrate typical hospital protocol. This is a productive way to help students learn, it brings real life experience to college students. In the lecture notes the commentator is crippled and he expresses how he enjoys dancing in the virtual world. So a pro for the virtual world would be that it can make seemingly impossible things possible and inexpensive. The negatives just like any social networking site would be the lack of trust. You can get help from people and make friends on this site but you can never make a real true friend on this site because you never know who is on the other end. Virtual worlds embody the word creative. To create a world of your own you have to be original. To make new infrastructures and landscape and create new ways to make people feel comfortable and fit in. In the lecture notes the narrator uses second life to help a person overcome their inability to socialize with other people. In this world being able to communicate is crucial to living, so by creating a second life; he saved a real one.
In the future virtual worlds will be vaster than the real world exploring new planets and more fun. It will be a mix of world of war craft and Seinfeld. A game about nothing (The Sims) lol.
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