8. Enhance virtual reality – statistics show that dedicated computer gamers spend an average of 10,000 hours online by the time they are finished with high school. While some might believe this is a waste, it has led to increasingly sophisticated virtual environments that are now being used to train practitioners in various fields and treat patients. And the entertainment aspect of virtual reality is not going away. We would all feel better if our young pilot or bus driver or brain surgeon, just out of training, has spent hundreds or thousands of hours doing the virtual activity they’re about perform on us:emergency plane landings, blown out bus wheels at 55 mph or removing brain tumors.
