The Duck of Minerva
The Duck Quacks at Twilight
If it won’t put me in the middle of the Baku Congress of the Peoples of the East, then I say “Meh.”
Daniel H. Nexon is a Professor at Georgetown University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service. His academic work focuses on international-relations theory, power politics, empires and hegemony, and international order. He has also written on the relationship between popular culture and world politics.
So how is this any better than a web-chat which everyone can already use and which already accurately portrays all known visual gestures? Is it that it allows people to mimic being together in an imagined forum? Just because it's in avatar is that supposed to be cool, less 'real' and therefore more acessible,? What's your/ or Kinect's 'game changing' take on this? Its significance.
It isn't. It has no “game changing” significance. I don't get it at all.