At work, I've had the opportunity to participate on a "serious games" project, which looked at the use of online games to convey environmental or health messages (while still being entertaining and challenging). As a result, I've done a little reading in this area and it's sort of a fascinating world.
This story is just the newest twist--it seems an online role-playing game inadvertently developed a plague and real-life academics are studying it to learn about how epidemics spread in society:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293920,00.html
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The Sagacious Empathy
1 week ago
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That's an amazing story.
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