{"id":97,"date":"2005-04-11T14:44:36","date_gmt":"2005-04-11T19:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=97"},"modified":"2024-11-14T15:22:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T23:22:19","slug":"pulling-for-tortoise-on-studying-real-people-in-virtual-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"Pulling for the Tortoise: On Studying Real People in Virtual Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.core77.com\/posts\/706\/A-Real-Winter-Market\">my blog entry<\/a> over on Core. Per my own directive, I&#8217;m attempting to segregate topics, but that sometimes proves difficult. When I first read this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=mg18624945.800&#038;feedId=online-news_rss20\">article on New Scientist<\/a>, William Gibson&#8217;s &#8220;The Winter Market&#8221; came to mind and reminded me that for all the technological and scientific advancements humanity makes, we still have a lot of social ground to cover and related issues to resolve &#8211; and most of those will be documented in psychological journals; issues I now see bleeding into the &#8220;virtual&#8221; interactions around me. Perhaps the researchers who use simulations to study real world problems could extend their focus to the seemingly &#8220;normal&#8221; people who populate them. No doubt we could all use a bit of advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just posted my blog entry over on Core. Per my own directive, I&#8217;m attempting to segregate topics, but that sometimes proves difficult. When I first read this article on New Scientist, William Gibson&#8217;s &#8220;The Winter Market&#8221; came to mind &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=97\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[126,116],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retransmit","tag-cyberpunk","tag-virtualworlds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2969,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/2969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}