Are we afraid to fail?

Strong comments from Visual Purple on launching visual worlds. We are afraid to fail and will keep churning out standard e-learning. From a career limiting aspect we do not want to take the risk. We are also faced with the IT folks who always says no. So it is easy to keep writing checks for safe projects. Virtual Worlds are new and scare people. Maybe the current economic climate is not appropriate for this level of risk. The other question is: what can we use them for? The answer is not always clear. When compared to the price - who wouldn't be scared? But lets face it we we never took risks we would never progress or grow. There would be no innovation. R&D would die. Carpe Diem.