The world of tomorrow

Many of you may not know but in addition to Art, I also study communications. What is interesting is how the field has changed more in the past decade or so with the Internet and our developing understanding of it, then the entire century before it. In on of my classes we watched these videos about the recent changes in media as well as some prediction of the future. If these predictions are true, how will they effect how we game? What if copy right was abolished? What happens when we can expiriance the virtual world with all five senses directly? As prosumers do we continue to game? Or do we begin to play again just on a virtual frontier? Will ideas such as catering to demographics based on web activity cross over into games? For example will the same game have elements that differ based on your demographic? Will games be designed and built by the collective? Will single player games be a thing of the past? Will MMO's become the standard? Nobody knows the future. These are just predictions. And although most of this does not directly relate to gaming, I believe it provides incite into the world of tomorrow. One of the most revolutionary inventions the printing press, literally changed society and even individual psychology through the way we obtain, process and conceptualize information. However these changes did not start happening till nearly 50 years after. The Internet is the printing press of our time. We are just beginning to see how it changes society. Iceland is experimenting with a new government where people can help make laws by adding their imput and voting throu Facebook. The world is changing and If we are to make games for the future, we must begin to think of how the people of the future live and think.