Despite "Second Life's" waning popularity as a destination for businesses--partly a result of virtual vandalism and other unpredictablebehavior by the world's more eccentric inhabitants--she insists that private virtual worlds like Forterra's can offer many of the same advantages without the risks to security and productivity.
Markets are prone to unpredictable human behavior, violent economic swings, powerful natural disasters, sudden commodity shortages and crippling cyber outages.
One reason that people view that kind of behavior unsettling is because we view the highly charged person as unpredictable, especially if we do not know the individual well, disagree with them, or view them with ambiguity.