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September 10, 2007, 01:51 PM ET
Second Life to Be Linked to Web
Cory Ondrejka, co-founder and chief technology officer of Linden Lab, the operator of Second Life, said in an August interview with National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation that the San Francisco company wants to integrate Second Life more with the Web and three-dimensional online games, such as World of Warcraft.
Also during the 50-minute show, Eric Lofgren, a graduate student studying epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, chats about unleashing a virtual epidemic in Second Life to better understand how disease spreads in real life.
And Sherry Turkle, a professor of the social studies of science and technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recommends that therapists take Second Life seriously as tool for understanding their clients’ innermost thoughts and desires.
“You see someone really playing out the self that they want to explore,” she says. “It’s not always who they want to be. Sometimes they can be exploring a dark side of themselves.”—Andrea L. Foster
Categories: Virtual-Worlds
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