[p2p-research] Dilbert comic about Google a a health plan & VA PTSD project in Second Life

[Paul D. Fernhout]

A comic:
   "Dilbert comic strip about Google a a health plan"
   http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2007-02-18/

Mentioned here:
"The New VA Health Plan Is Second Life"
http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1432214/The-New-VA-Health-Plan-Is-Second-Life
"Remember when Catbert informed Dilbert that the new company health plan is 
Google? In another case of life imitating Dilbert, combat veterans with 
post-traumatic stress disorder are being provided with a US Army-sponsored 
virtual world in Second Life (slideshow) to help deal with their condition. 
Developed by USC's Institute for Creative Technologies, it is hoped that the 
veterans-only virtual world Coming Home and its planned activities will 
promote conversations that can help reduce PTSD. The Avatar will see you 
now, Sergeant."

Both the Dilbert cartoon about people Googling health information and the 
Second Life project by the US Army for PTSD are interesting from a 
peer-to-peer perspective. Both are cases where peers are helping peers, 
mediated by computers. In one case it is fictitious (but still true, as for 
example I used Google to look up treatments for a hangnail the other day),
   http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=hangnail
and in the other case it is directly state subsidized health care (but still 
peer-to-peer).

--Paul Fernhout
http://www.pdfernhout.net/