As synthetic worlds grow in importance, we'll see scholars, legal analysts, and game industry experts under increasing pressure to generate sensible guidelines for different aspects of the practice. |
It turns out that the way humans are made, the software-based approach seems to have much more success. |
One thing that's surprising is how serious this is. It's now my career. |
There's no economic puzzle here. Where there's money to be made, there will be people out to make it. Where some gamers are playing for fun, others are pursuing a new kind of day-trading game and those two factions are trying to co-exist. |
We can and should view synthetic worlds as essentially unregulated playgrounds for economic organization. |