[MUD-Dev] Re: WIRED: Kilers have more fun

[J C Lawrence]

On Wed, 01 Jul 1998 15:59:38 -0700 
Mike Sellers<mike at bignetwork.com> wrote:

> At 03:20 PM 7/1/98 -0700, J C Lawrence wrote:

>> When the invading hordes of hormonally challenged genitalia
>> measuring masses (or any other demographic of choice) can trample
>> into an existent and populated game world and be simply absorbed
>> and digested whole-cloth by the established social systems in the
>> game world.

...deletia...

> I wonder how long it will take until we have something like
> this... 10-15 years?  Longer?

Almost as soon as MUD-like environments become ubiquitious if not
slightly sooner.  How long?  Dunno.  We're nearing a cusp here.  One
side MUD's and their like will dissappear as "children's toys" (cf the
references to MUDs in Gibson's "Idoru"), and the other end has things
like Gibson's Walled City in Idoru becoming common.  I have no idea
which way the pendulumn is tending.

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