If you weren’t outside this planet over the last few weeks, you heard some sabre rattling.
Following the guidelines that I described in the previous article (see “Maximizing costs, minimizing ROI“), this article was inspired by simply connecting strings of unrelated but mutually influencing news items.
Taxing the digital economy:blueprint for a virtual nation?
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009This short article (1000 words) tries to see some potential side-effects of the digital economy
Certainly, I am neither the first nor the last.
But it is a little bit disheartening to see how the discussions proceed as if reality had been frozen when the discussions began.
Probably SecondLife was the first case where a real-world entity had to sustain a virtual world currency to avoid a crisis of confidence.
And who should regulate these neo-financial virtual entities?
A short article.
As usual, with more questions than answers.
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