Comments on: Geekonomics Makes WarCraft Flow

By: Juan

Juan — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 06:14:40 +0000

I agree with the “videogameblogger”: Sounds like a good arguement for open-source!

By: Tony Zerg

Tony Zerg — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 01:13:55 +0000

True! (Not that I can’t think by myself or that quoting somebody is a great argument) but my intellectual favorites would certainly agree with the theses in your text.

Oswald Spengler derides the liberal view that the purpose of our life is finding some way not to be able to do anything hard and difficult – by inventing machines for example.

And Robert Ardrey very convincingly explain how boredom would be a much greater plague if we really “achieved” the “perfect” life you’re supposed to dream of.

And another thing that in a way is connected with Warcraft – that, in tact with population density and growth of the big cities, we’ll be getting more and more aggressive, and we will kill each other (or alternatively ourselves, or go mad, or get sick, much sooner than there’ll be the Malthusian food problem.)

By: videogameblogger

videogameblogger — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:57:17 +0000

Sounds like a good arguement for open-source! With open-source you are more apt to get innovation and useful/logical features. Open-source also typically provides increase security and reliability with low overhead.

By: anon

anon — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:11:21 +0000

umm, actually de beers controls this sea of diamonds, and that’s the only reason they are worth what they are.

By: WarAxe

WarAxe — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:50:16 +0000

Yeah, but the custom Fender wouldn’t be as special if every teenage Metallica-wanna-be punk could pop one out of a replicator.

Would a diamond ring be as special is diamonds were as plentiful as water? There are artificial diamonds now that are more colorless, more brilliant, and more flawless than any natural diamond… but are only worth one tenth.

Ahh… perhaps it was the replicator that shifted the focus away from material wealth and onto improving oneself… then again it could shift the effort into taking what can’t be replicated, like kidnapping and thrill crimes.

Humans on their own are dark.

By: Tony G

Tony G — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 22:20:41 +0000

Yeah, yeah, why buy the cow when the milk is free. But think how cool it would be to have a Star Trek Replicator. For those of you who have lives and venture into the real world, a replicator was a device on many of the Star Trek TV series and movies that converted energy into matter. Think about being able to have the computer make ANYTHING you wanted. Any type of food or beverage, or clothing or jewelry. In Star Trek, the motivation to achieve material wealth was replaced with the motivation to improve oneself. To explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations (cue the music).
Okay, so the incentives would be gone. I agree. But if the essentials of life are taken care of, hopefully most of us would find new challenges and new rewards. Areas of science, medicine, arts, and philosophy could be explored. And a custom Fender created by the computer would sound just as good as a custom Fender that was purchased after months of saving. Maybe…