A Wandering Eyre

Edward Castronova, an expert in virtual world economies, recently received a grant from the MacArthur Foundation to build an MMOG based on Shakespeare’s King Richard III. The game, Arden, will be the first non-commercial, academic game of its kind. Castronova plans to use Arden to set up social experiments and teach people about Shakespeare’s works.
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Lawrence Lessig
Center for Internet and Society
I will claim ignorance and admit that I had never really heard of Lawrence Lessig before except on the periphery of conversations. Now that I have actually heard him speak, I wonder what hole I have been living in to have missed him.
This post is a sum of his [...]