Endyl
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Posted - 2003.08.20 08:59:00 -
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In all history, it has repeated itself.
Some people are builders, they try to create new things and share them with the rest of humanity.
Some people are fans, they will involve them soul into something, and support and follow it even into doom.
Some are simple users, usualy the majority, they use what is given to them if they are satisfied, else they'll just leave without much input, and are the true benchmark of the combined quality of something.
The Chaos factor, is the interessing category here, in the real world, they are the thiefs, those who send spam over the internet, the hackers, in Eve they are the can stealers, the griefers (NOT the pirates).
Usualy those people are not stupid, but are ingenious people who just find and use flaws in any system.
They are at the same time, a goodness and evilness, goodness because they force evolution, a flawed system will be abused, a solid system won't.
Evilness because they enforce 'a kind' of evolution, security, but at the same time, they remove the feeling of trust, everyone become suspect unless prooved otherwise, everyone lock his door to all stranger, because that could be one of them.
I was already into Internet business when it was Open, when any PC could do a DNS request to any DNS over the world, when any mail server could relay mail to any other mail server, when banners on web sites didn't even existed, when Internet had a true FREE and OPEN phylosophy.
Same goes for online games, most of the online games I played since the 1st day, where open, at start players had the freedom to build them own world, but every time, some people (a minority) come and abuse everything that can be abused, forcing developpers to build up game mechanics to prevent them to act, restraining liberty from all others players, transforming a world based on players morality to a world with computer controlled morality.
Is there a conclusion to this theory ? Not really, just a constatation that human nature never changed, and maybe will never change, and that maybe Isaac Asimov was completely right, that human can't control his own destiny, and the best would be to put it into the hand of robots.
Why I wrote this post ? Dunno... maybe I just needed to test my new keyboard. :)
Anyway, the future is coming...
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