The Meshverse Journal

Yeah, I know - yet another TVIR but hey, gotta keep it real Seriously, business folks I deal with are trying to get their heads around the economics of the meshverse paradigm and so I was pulling together some Castronova references when I came across this:
His most important conclusion is that the economic and [...]

It’s an extension of the land mass of the Earth. As long as somebody wants land to build on, Second Life will make land.
BusinessWeek May 2006
Even though this is an old interview(SL only had 100K residents then) and his Synthetic Worlds book is even older, they are very worthwhile reads.

Second Life, a real new world: life, business and toxic immersion
NOTE: there is an x-rated slide(33) and a highly suggestive one(38)