Word: virtual
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...Adam have three priorities that are focused and achievable through results-oriented plans: to strengthen our campus, to improve our education, and to enhance our experience at Harvard. They have concrete proposals (available at www.thenewuc.com) for achieving these goals, from creating a student endowment to building a virtual web portal for students to increasing departmental classes that count for Core credit. By driving after proposals that work toward definite greater ends, the New UC will build momentum and avoid the scatter-shot inaction...
Appropriately enough, Nintendo has always been an innovator in taking video game health threats to the next level. Years before the Wii, the Virtual Boy, the company’s ill-fated three-dimensional portable console, was notorious for its possible side effects—dizziness, headaches, and the like—and subsequent health warnings. Unsurprisingly, the system failed spectacularly. But as infamous as the Virtual Boy was, today’s new wave of innovative controllers has sparked a much broader wave of undeniably dangerous games...
...China, Qui Chengwei was imprisoned for life last year after tracking down and stabbing Zhu Caoyuan, a fellow player of a popular online role-playing game who had stolen his (completely virtual) sword and sold it in-game for around $1000 in real money. Since there are as yet no legal protections for in-game property—despite the existence of mature financial markets in these online worlds—Chengwei took justice into his own hands, and Caoyuan died by the (all-too-physical) sword...
...farmers” are paid to sit at computers all day and obtain valuable items in online games for resale to first-world clients. Against this backdrop, such incidents look less like the actions of obsessed nerds, and more like the advance wave of an emerging society in which virtual realities are worth killing...
...light of these more pernicious incursions of the virtual sphere into real-world violence, maybe “joystick elbow” wasn’t so bad after...