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There is plenty of space in USA too. Except that no one wants to be in the middle of nowhere. So it's not surprising at all that some digital locations will be
by 323 5y ago
There is plenty of space in USA too. Except that no one wants to be in the middle of nowhere.
So it's not surprising at all that some digital locations will be much more desirable than others.
In the metaverse people will want to live next to celebrities too.
- wmf 5y agoThe metaverse can have teleportation or something.
- larsiusprime 5y agoYou're talking about what are called Agglomeration effects, which are highly dependent upon transportation methods (this is covered in the article). If you can teleport any time to any place instantly for free, then where you are matters a lot less. If transportation has costs and limitations, where you are matters a lot more.
- chii 5y agoThe location adjacent to a celebrity is always scarce (assuming the dimension is 3D). This give it value, because even though you (an entity) can visit the location for free easily, the owner of adjacent locations are "associated" with the celebrity and this "association" is what is worth money (of course, this value is in addition to the Agglomeration value imho).
- ShamelessC 5y agoSince the development of popular encoding formats for media and the subsequent creation of DRM it has been clear that digital "assets" will only ever be artificially scarce. The cost of copying 0's and 1's is the cost of owning any computer. The only reason it would be scarce in the "metaverse" (ugh), would be if the stakeholders of that metaverse/whatever purposefully impose limits that digital computers don't even impose (like DRM).