As part of my series of blog posts on democracy in virtual worlds, I've put forward an idea for an experiment to test different types of democracy in Second Life's 'petri dish' world. Once more, here's a taster of the first paragraph and bit to whet your appetite and promote click through!
My summer reading last year was Eric Beinhocker's 'The Origin of Wealth'. It's probably the best non-fiction book I've read in several years. I was really struck by his description of Microsoft's strategy in the OS wars of 1987 and wondered how that same approach could be adapted to the formation of democratic, self-governing communities in virtual worlds such as 'Second Life'.
Beinhocker takes us back to a time when Microsoft's continued dominance of the PC operating system market was far from assured....