Comments on: after virtual worlds at nus entrepreneuship week http://jeremysnyder.cc/2009/01/21/after-virtual-worlds-at-nus-entrepreneuship-week/ jeremy blogs about business and remix culture Fri, 18 May 2012 04:43:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: jeremy http://jeremysnyder.cc/2009/01/21/after-virtual-worlds-at-nus-entrepreneuship-week/comment-page-1/#comment-127 jeremy Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:19:49 +0000 http://jeremysnyder.cc/?p=124#comment-127 @Josiecat, there are limits to weather integration ;-) @Josiecat, there are limits to weather integration ;-)

]]> By: Josiecat http://jeremysnyder.cc/2009/01/21/after-virtual-worlds-at-nus-entrepreneuship-week/comment-page-1/#comment-126 Josiecat Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:15:31 +0000 http://jeremysnyder.cc/?p=124#comment-126 Uh so, does virtual Berlin get cold and miserable rainy? That's all I remember about the place. I dunno, I can better imagine spending time in virtual Costa del Sol. :) Uh so, does virtual Berlin get cold and miserable rainy? That’s all I remember about the place. I dunno, I can better imagine spending time in virtual Costa del Sol. :)

]]> By: jeremy http://jeremysnyder.cc/2009/01/21/after-virtual-worlds-at-nus-entrepreneuship-week/comment-page-1/#comment-125 jeremy Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:43:05 +0000 http://jeremysnyder.cc/?p=124#comment-125 @Josiecat, yes, you ask some valid and interesting questions there. i don't really have the answers, and i suspect that almost no one does yet. it's still too early to know. @Josiecat, yes, you ask some valid and interesting questions there. i don’t really have the answers, and i suspect that almost no one does yet. it’s still too early to know.

]]> By: Josiecat http://jeremysnyder.cc/2009/01/21/after-virtual-worlds-at-nus-entrepreneuship-week/comment-page-1/#comment-124 Josiecat Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:38:21 +0000 http://jeremysnyder.cc/?p=124#comment-124 So if people are able to generate income from virtual settings, that's good enough to be real life? It certainly is if you are one of the many who use the same physical skill set (fingers, sitting, the ol' noggin) to work a lifetime in a traditional setting. That an online world made of people you actually know will compete with actual interaction with them on the scale that WoW occupies people's lives... Can you play it on an iphone while waiting in line at the post office? Then yes! Does it affix you sedentary to a computer during free time? Tough call. So if people are able to generate income from virtual settings, that’s good enough to be real life? It certainly is if you are one of the many who use the same physical skill set (fingers, sitting, the ol’ noggin) to work a lifetime in a traditional setting.

That an online world made of people you actually know will compete with actual interaction with them on the scale that WoW occupies people’s lives… Can you play it on an iphone while waiting in line at the post office? Then yes! Does it affix you sedentary to a computer during free time? Tough call.

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