[Air-l] An interesting article in The New Yorker

Leo Simonetta simonetta at artsci.com
Mon Jun 18 06:46:55 PDT 2001


The May 28, 2001 edition of The New Yorker has an interesting article on the
online world Britannia from Ultima Online and some of the strange things
that have happened when people went beyond the designed boundaries of the
game.  Some of the changes/challenges that the designers did not expect
were; prostitution, serial killers, counterfeiting, conspicuous consumption,
extinction and hoarding. 

The article is called "Pimps and Dragons" and is by Elizabeth Kolbert.

Unfortunately I can't find the article on-line.

(I tried sending this last week but it seems to have never made it.)
-- 
Leo G. Simonetta
Art & Science Group, LLC
simonetta at artsci.com 




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