{"id":109,"date":"2006-01-14T09:14:41","date_gmt":"2006-01-14T13:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=109"},"modified":"2006-01-14T09:14:41","modified_gmt":"2006-01-14T13:14:41","slug":"the-size-of-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"The size of what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A review in the <em>FT<\/em> Magazine of Edward Castronova&#8217;s <em>Synthetic Worlds,<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0226096262\/andrewbrownssite\">a book<\/a> on online gaming, asks<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;when will synthetic worlds become economies worth reckoning with? They are already real, and are the fastest growing economies in the world. But they are small: all the synthetic economies put together, with about ten milion players, are about the size of Bosnia and Herzegovina.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>But I don&#8217;t think of Bosnia and Herzegovina as <em>small.<\/em> I remember a country that took a day to cross on bad roads, where hundreds of thousands of people grew enough food to eat.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A review in the FT Magazine of Edward Castronova&#8217;s Synthetic Worlds, a book on online gaming, asks &#8220;when will synthetic worlds become economies worth reckoning with? They are already real, and are the fastest growing economies in the world. But &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=109\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=109\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}