Doesn't seem to be very playable -- is the point of "There" (what a terrible name) to just buy brand name goods? How is it a game? You can't create anything, you can't change the world, and if you can't adventure or complete tasks/quests to get more currency, why is it any fun? And why am I going to spend my time buying things in a virtual world when I can buy them in the real one, if they both cost real-world money?
It's unfortunate that articles in Business 2.0 humor me more often than they are useful or interesting.
I'm not allowed to bring nail clippers on a commercial flight, and now we're thinking of letting unmanned aircraft fly around the country?
This sounds like a great idea. What happens when there's a glitch in the wireless system used to fly the planes?
AI flying the planes would be even worse. One of my AI profs back in school had a great anecdote: he and his grad students spent months creating a rules based piloting system for a small aircraft. They took it outside after months of testing indoors, and prepared it for its maiden flight. Turned it on, and it refused to take off. Turns out that it decided that it was too dangerous to fly itself, under any conditions.
Haven't we had enough aircraft flying into buildings for a while?
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Doesn't seem to be very playable -- is the point of "There" (what a terrible name) to just buy brand name goods? How is it a game? You can't create anything, you can't change the world, and if you can't adventure or complete tasks/quests to get more currency, why is it any fun? And why am I going to spend my time buying things in a virtual world when I can buy them in the real one, if they both cost real-world money?
It's unfortunate that articles in Business 2.0 humor me more often than they are useful or interesting.
I'm not allowed to bring nail clippers on a commercial flight, and now we're thinking of letting unmanned aircraft fly around the country? This sounds like a great idea. What happens when there's a glitch in the wireless system used to fly the planes? AI flying the planes would be even worse. One of my AI profs back in school had a great anecdote: he and his grad students spent months creating a rules based piloting system for a small aircraft. They took it outside after months of testing indoors, and prepared it for its maiden flight. Turned it on, and it refused to take off. Turns out that it decided that it was too dangerous to fly itself, under any conditions. Haven't we had enough aircraft flying into buildings for a while?