The Avatar Opportunity
September 29, 2010 I was in a meeting with some state policy folks last week and one of the sidebar discussion was about e-health – how much human interaction can you really do virtually? The answer to that question was answered for me in an article in the September 1st edition of The Wall Street Journal, "Only in Japan, Real Men Go to a Hotel With Virtual Girlfriends: Dating-Simulation Game a Last Resort For Honeymoon Town and Its Lonely Guests." If you're a skeptic about the ability of humans to communicate and form relationships via technology, then this . . .

