Second Life celebrity, thinker, developer and blogger, Gwyneth Llewelyn takes a look a white paper by Proximity London on virtual worlds. The white paper is based on some 4,000 interviews with people and builds up a picture of the realities of these synthetic environments.
The paper's author, John Urpeth, basically rounds up six of the most popular claims about virtual worlds, and basically finds them all to be pretty much so much smoke - and you don't need to ask where that smoke is blown or why.
Llewelyn goes through all six and the results are well worth your time reading. If you only know virtual worlds from TV, newspapers, and major news sites - then the odds are you've learned little that's actually true. You can find interesting and energetic discussion on the topic at Digado.
