LegalTechPrincess

  My first understanding of virtual reality was from the 2009 film Avatar. It was even more epic because I watched it in 3-d. The contrast between former Marine Jake Sully’s life, who was disabled in real life but in his avatar form he was a thriving able-bodied man experiencing a whole new world and finding love through his avatar. For Jake it was a very serious and intense form of escapism. Escapism is one of the many reasons the Metaverse will thrive. It allows you to detach from your world and go to the other world. And like the internet, and from Jake Sully’s experience, I believe it might be very addictive. This reminds me of when Instagram introduced the avatar feature. I was very excited about creating my avatar and impressed with the range of body features and skin tones Instagram had for its users to create an avatar with. So my avatar has dark skin, red lipstick (which I love to wear), hair texture that resembles mine and I even have glasses that look like mine. Alth...

  This week we look at how the internet has changed warfare! Really and truly cyber space is the new battlefield. War is no longer with guns in land, sea or the air, but now at a desk over a computer. Our enemies in this battle are governments of the world as well as financial thieves and fraudsters. Mr. Brad Smith, president of Microsoft said, since nation states are now attacking, we should call on our governments to come together and agree that this cannot continue to happen. So just as the Geneva convention establish international legal standards for humanitarian treatment in war, so also will a digital Geneva convention fight the online battle. During my first few weeks at my U.S. law school, I was having a very nice conversation with someone from the law school. Then with a smile he turned to me and asked if I was a Nigerian princess. I was startled and asked him how he knew that my name translated in English meant princess . He looked confused about what I had asked him ...