I’m not the only one!
Finally. Someone has talked about the interesting impact video game technology is going to have on society. What do I mean? Quite simply, Grand Theft Auto 10. Crysis 8. Gears of War 17. The games are going to be all 18+ just because they look so realistic. It’s going to confuse humanity. Once you can recreate any video everything will instantly be presumed to be fake. Regardless if it was a video of your wife sleeping with someone or your reaction to winning the lottery. It will all, eventually, be fakeable. And most likely by Joe Blogs.
It just happens to be John Carmack, who in theory could be one of the first people to realistically achieve it. He creates ENTIRE ENGINES on his own!
“We are looking at interesting ramifications towards the tail end of hardware evolution in different areas when you’re looking 10 or 20 years out.”
I guess I’m an Elitist
I hate the idea of being an Eliteist. It conjours up images of Nazi’s in my head and I can’t seem to get around it. However, I cannot deny that I am very patriotic to specific things if they pass all of my rigerous tests. I’m a wannabe evangelist for anything remotely trying to be different or cool. Or just useful or tasty. It doesn’t matter.
My work colleague prefers Operation Flashpoint to Call of Duty 4. Nuff said!
At work we have a particularly Elitist colleague. Some examples would be snubbing all ‘new’ videogames because they will never compare to Operation Flashpoint, a game nearing a decade old. Or maybe not wanting to eat “anything from the sea”. Or even any vegetables other than peas. In away I admire him – it must make his life a nightmare for no real reason!
I am deeply involved with computers. They are my tools. There seems to be two main types of tools available, and I stupidly chose the mass appeal option; Windows. For over 5 years I baffled myself with it until I took the plunge to try this ‘Mac’ thing. This was probably a defining moment in my career. It allows me to be so accurate digitally. With Windows you never knew if you were going to return and find your house burned down. Thanks to turning to the dark side i’ve managed to keep a record of everything for the last 8 odd years. If I was still using a PC this blog would be much more boring without pictures, files, downloads etc. In fact there simply would be no blog.
