From: "Brandon Van Every" <vanevery@blarg.net>
Subject: ENTERTAIN: what to do in Cyberspace?
Date: 9 Oct 1996 09:29:50 GMT
Message-ID: <01bbb5c3$44a2f100$259072ce@hammurabi.blarg.net>
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Imagine a true Cyberspace.  None of this VRML stuff... none of this
super duper slow modem stuff.  Pretend that we're using technology
that's 5 years into the future.  3d rendering speed is not a problem,
bandwidth is not a problem.  (Bandwidth is always a problem, but
enough people have made enough clever algorithms that it's not a
problem.)  Protocols have been devised that will allow large numbers
of machines to "link up" and create a common, shared Cyberspace.
Don't worry about whether it will happen in 5 years or not, just
pretend that it will happen.

>From an ***entertainment*** standpoint, what would you want to do in
Cyberspace?  There are plenty of ways to get "real work done" in
Cyberspace, but I'm asking about entertainment.  Really, I'm asking about
what it means to be "entertained."

There's the usual... people will want to shoot each other, people will
want to stand around chatting, people will want to have tiny-sex with
each other.  All that good stuff that already goes on in MUDs today.
For many folks, that's plenty to do.  But let's say you don't have to
hang out with all the yahoos who do these sorts of things, if you
don't want to.  Let's say you're free to exercise your creative
energies and the sky's the limit.

 How would you choose to spend your time in Cyberspace?  If Cyberspace
were the stuff that dreams were made of, what would you do in it?


Cheers,
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