Hello Everyone,
Just curious... Have Croquet developers and Croquet users considered what effect "flash crowds" might have in Croquet in terms of avatar space and multiple users simultaniously moving the same 3D object?
Definition of "flash crowd":
"Larry Niven's 1973 SF short story "Flash Crowd" predicted that one consequence of cheap teleportation would be huge crowds materializing almost instantly at the sites of interesting news stories. Twenty years later the term passed into common use on the Internet to describe exponential spikes in website or server usage when one passes a certain threshold of popular interest (this may also be called slashdot effect). "
http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/f/flash_crowd.html
-----Original Message----- From: Kim Rose [mailto:Kim.Rose@viewpointsresearch.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 09:41 AM To: Andreas Raab; 'Alan Kay'; 'Dave Smith'; 'David Reed' Cc: darius@inglang.com Subject: RE: A Question about Croquet's Philosophy...
This has been a very interesting discussion and certainly reminds one of the many layers (computer architecture, social, economic etc., etc.)invovled in building a shareable, open space like Croquet. thanks, Kim