The future of Gaming

I predict that SONY will enter our workplaces in the near future with software that turns our work chores into fun. It stands to reason, right? These days we can work from home with an adsl connection and our PC and PS3 are connected and form a media hub. So work and gaming has got closer.

Here's where it gets closer still. Why use software to send a letter, an email, a pdf document or an Excel file and waste all that good gaming time? So SONY execs are bound to devise a game portal that enables you to do all that 'Work' nonsense, whilst your fingers are also strafing enemies with gunfire, playing Scrabble and holding virtual meetings with work colleagues in a SIM office?

Tell me that is NOT gonna happen and I'd be more surprised.

You can call me Penny 'Arthur C. Clarke' Clark, if you will, but I am telling you today (June 18th 2010)that this is the future of gaming.

All our worlds are colliding. The ones that capture our imagination and vitality the best will survive. Sure we have to earn a living, but we can do that with part of our brains while the other part is drinking coffee, staying up late to watch movies, and fighting virtual wars with fingertip controls. It may not be the most productive way to do business but it is increasingly more common to see people interacting with the PC keyboard, eating, drinking, conversing AND doing work chores. So someone is gonna make a helluvalot of money when they work out how best to fuse all that.

Geek power is not going away. Our homes will only become more interconnected to cyberspace as fridges tell us what we're out of stock of, and baths run themselves to suitable temperatures. That mundane daily stuff is going further away. We will inevitably fill out time with multiple activities that suit the whole family - and learning, communicating and stimulating through entertainment i.e. GAMING is where we're headed.

You know it. Let's get ready.

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