I was doing some research this morning and stumbled upon "The 2050 Project" which was an effort jointly pursued by SFI and the World Resources Institute.
I haven't dove into Will Wright's past ( to see if Sugarscape was the basis for Spore), but I did notice on the Spore wikipedia page that they are using procedural generation. Has anyone done any prototyping with Sugarscape? It seems that it could be a powerful forecasting tool for many socio-economic models. Sugarscape: http://sugarscape.sourceforge.net/ "Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science From the Bottom Up" by Joshua M. Epstein and Robert Axtell: http://www.brookings.edu/press/books/1996/artifsoc.aspx Generative programming groups: http://lunchbuffet.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!880F7BACD6654F3C!418.entry -scott ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
