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# Re: Talker-ization of MOOs

- Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 07:36:07 PDT
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    >In any event, the first step in approaching this question probably
    >shouldn't be talking to the people on this list; in should be talking
    >to your users and finding out what they want/need that you might
    >be able to provide.  The tools that are most likely to succeed are
    >those that your users ask for.

    What you've said is excellent, and I only object to what is said in the
    above paragraph. When you are dealing with emerging technologies, the
    important question is not so much what the users want, but what they want
    that doesn't exist yet. How many people 10 years ago knew what they wanted
    out of something called 'MOO' which didn't exist at the time?

    This is the same logic which is leading the somewhat blind information
    superhighway advocates to conlude that people want 500 channels of
    television, rather than something yet to be invented that could be
    revolutionary, exciting, and innovative.

    If you polled the 9000+ people at LambdaMOO, the majority would probably
    say they wanted an IRC-like contraption where they can meet anonymous sex
    partners. Now, one could argue that that's what most people *really* want.
    But maybe it's because they don't see the potential of MOO. We, the writers
    to the list, create the potential, while our users, hopefully, exploit it
    to its fullest.

    Cheers,

    cricket

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