The context...
Political:
- government policies currently include virtual strategies
- generational change will remove backlash against government for policies such as the NBN
- virtual world has contributed to political change eg Arab Spring
- political cost if virtual system fails or is corrupted?
Economic:
- how will the demand for cheap technology to support virtual systems be met in the future if due to economic advancement there are no more third world or 'developing' countries?
- cost savings + efficiency gains with an integrated virtual system (depending on what it is about)
Social:
- virtual and social worlds are integrated and symbiotic
- there might be a rejection/backlash against the virtual world in the future if it becomes more invasive and privacy is impinged
- virtual world has contributed to social change eg Arab Spring
- how will face to face social interactions evolve over time as virtual systems grow?
Technological:
- will the virtual world replace the human body as we know it?
- will everything exist in the cloud?
- what happens if the technology fails?
Environmental:
- environmental cost of producing (mining, factory ghg emissions) and throwing out technology devices that are used to create, maintain and use virtual systems
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