If you have an extra hour and want to truly learn more about what's coming with virtual world's, new marketing techniques online and a host of other interesting material, watch this lecture from the Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Regardless of your viwepoint on these topics, the research is fascinating to watch and discuss.
The lecture is given by Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab and an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford. He describes how everything can be manipulated in virtual worlds. I won't even try to summarize his findings, so watch and learn.
No doubt, the implications can be pretty scary for the future of virtual worlds. And yet, it is important to know what the future holds.
More to come on this topic