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I read Daemon a week ago and it was meh... it was somewhat surrealist to me. But nice book anyways.
Daemon is only half the book, read the other half called Freedom_TM.
Getting shut-ins outside where they can be hit by cars may have net health benefits (and people can choose for themselves).
It resembles so much Shadow Cities ( http://www.shadowcities.com/ ) that it almost feels like copying.
I can't tell from the available material if Ingress gameplay provides for satisfying solo play, but if it doesn't they're going to hit the same issues Grey Area did originally.
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Nitpick: "We are in a perfect and undetectable simulation" is a meaningless statement. If e.g. someone found a privilege escalation in our reality's VM that would be quite meaningful.
Reality hackers? Let's badger Charlie Stross to write a novel about it. :)
Does anyone know if this is really 'multiplayer' or if your experience is in any way influence by the progress of others? I've toyed with a similar ideas but the problem was that your GPS location doesn't guarantee you are really there. There are plenty of ways to spoof your location. So, my point is it will only be a matter of time until there are bots that walk around for you. If this is purely a 'single player' ga…
Of course that only works up until people start sharing those codes online, even though you can tweak game mechanics to discourage players wanting to do that, it's impossible to prevent.
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Also reminded me of Vinge's Rainbow's Edge .
And of course the Metaverse in Snow Crash.
I like the underlying customer cause here - Let's get people off their chairs, on to the streets and meeting each other. Let's create interestingness in the mundane. Let's create a world which rewards interaction. A lovely antidote to the trend for us to all walk around with heads down, checking the latest irrelevancy on our smartphones.
I love the underlying engineering cause -- let's get everyone to keep a GPS/data link open while they walk around popular city attractions and roadways so we can build an amazing pedestrian pathfinding system.
I like the underlying customer cause here - Let's get people off their chairs, on to the streets and meeting each other. Let's create interestingness in the mundane. Let's create a world which rewards interaction. A lovely antidote to the trend for us to all walk around with heads down, checking the latest irrelevancy on our smartphones.
I love the underlying engineering cause -- let's get everyone to keep a GPS/data link open while they walk around popular city attractions and roadways so we can build an amazing pedestrian pathfinding system.