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From: "Jon A. Lambert" <jlsysinc@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 00:19:19 -0500
Organization: Kanga.Nu
Raph Koster wrote:
>
>The same thing again. At least, according to current sociological and
>anthropological theory. Check out "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond,
>which argues cogently that this stage is social development cannot be
>improved upon without certain population densities and ratios of available
>resources to caloric consumption. Which has lots of implications for mud
>design that I have been mulling over for several weeks now.
>
Caloric consumption ---> Noise? Bandwidth? or the amount of Attention?
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