It can be a tool for empowerment and self-acceptance as in the case of Ava who has a disability who used MUDS as a place to heal emotionally and socially. Each of us in our own way is incomplete. It can be a place of greater awareness, to look at what we represent in real life. We become decentralized and people as a process instead of as an end finished product. Kids games and toys to AI researchers merging human and machine.
Computers encourage diverse responses, yet there is a dominant style of computing that is emerging.
Distinctions are made between human and machine intelligence and the machines capablilities or lack of to be human or alive. What is life has become the central question. Simulated life is now becoming part of real life and their interconnectedness could lead to better life in general. We are at a point where new ideas and definitions of reality and life through technology is causing tension. Multiple viewpoints call forth a new moral discourse.