From UCI & UCLA
Even if there's pep in the step and pop between the ears still, ponder this: Many students enrolled in colleges and universities now have no concept of a world without such cyberspace icons as Google and Second Life. What then to teach them about this rapidly evolving area in academic classes? A MacArthur-winning Germanic languages prof challenges his students to contemplate all the up- and down-sides of Google, which went from its launch roughly a dozen years ago to ubiquity. Meantime, an anthropologist creates an avatar and goes out for field studies in the virtual world of Second Life, where he finds surprising information to report on discrimination, appearance and human kindness and altruism.
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