BusinessWeek online is carrying an article titled “Photography’s Golden Age“. It got me wondering if, or rather when, there would be a period viewed as “Virtual Sculpture’s Golden Age” (and I use the term “Sculpture” loosely). I haven’t really considered this. What with the current crop of game engines, some extremely compelling pieces could be made; and when real-time lighting enters both virtual worlds and MMORPGs there will then be commerce associated with these items in ways you don’t find in your average game. Food for thought.

[Edit: Tagged with #blockchain and #nft after the fact as their subsequent development was more-or-less what I was getting at with ideas surrounding “ownership” of digital goods and how supply-side economics might be reinforced through some means of ensuring artificial scarcity.]