Once again, I’m feeling a bit unimaginative on the subject header front, but anyway: I knew when I wrote the post on unseen presences that people way more intelligent and talented than me must already be thinking about this; it was just a matter of finding them… Anyway, here’s one link for you, the venture capitalist Susan Wu, who wrote back in March:
Let’s start with the basics – “What happens in an online environment when there are absolutely NO cognitive barriers between our online and offline selves?” “Why does an avatar matter at all?” “What types of relationships do people have with each other online and how can an avatar make that more or less meaningful?”
… and posits many other very interesting questions just in that one post.
