Issue (WIWE) status: Submitted, Unpublished
Wild Card's progress: Basic
This Wild Card came from:
European Commission Framework Programme for RTD
The theme/scheme related to this Wild Card:
Theme 8 - Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities
The sub-theme that best relates to this Wild Card:
Blue Sky Research on emerging issues and other research economies
Likelihood timeframe and scenario features :
now-2025
Wild Card's description:
New Web 3.0 virtual worlds take over the minds and lives of the youth – blurring the boundaries between entertainment, trading, networking, travel, education and work. The long term effects are similar to hard drug habits but apparently much harder to kick.
Interesting, but this is aready a trend that is occuring with advances in virtual worlds and younger generations becoming immersed in the virtual environment.