Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
...and this is another example of it. Nanotech, biotech, AI, quantum computing, advanced fuzzy math/chaos theory/swarm intelligence computer modeling techniques etc. etc. etc. There are technological innovation coming right an left and it's on an exponential scale not a diminishing one. It will be come more so as the fractured nature of specialized knowledge comes back together and people from diverse fields combine skills and apply knowledge in completely new ways outside of it's original intended areas of use.
People have regularly claimed nothing new under the sun and there always is something. That's not to say that there won't be a shift to services for a while or that we won't see some of his trends come true in the short term but in the long term there is still lifetimes full of knowledge to be discovered.
Adding to the emersion factor could also be accomplished by by mixing real world brand recongnition ads for in game products. That is something along the lines of Mercedes-Benz selling a futuristic in game hover car. This kind of thing could actually make games better rather than worse. I'd better not see an advert for laundry detergent in a futuristic post apocolyptic setting however and you know I will with Proctor and Gamble pays enough to the right money whores. =)
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Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
...and this is another example of it. Nanotech, biotech, AI, quantum computing, advanced fuzzy math/chaos theory/swarm intelligence computer modeling techniques etc. etc. etc. There are technological innovation coming right an left and it's on an exponential scale not a diminishing one. It will be come more so as the fractured nature of specialized knowledge comes back together and people from diverse fields combine skills and apply knowledge in completely new ways outside of it's original intended areas of use.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
People have regularly claimed nothing new under the sun and there always is something. That's not to say that there won't be a shift to services for a while or that we won't see some of his trends come true in the short term but in the long term there is still lifetimes full of knowledge to be discovered.
How am I ever going to win back my drug money, now?
Adding to the emersion factor could also be accomplished by by mixing real world brand recongnition ads for in game products. That is something along the lines of Mercedes-Benz selling a futuristic in game hover car. This kind of thing could actually make games better rather than worse. I'd better not see an advert for laundry detergent in a futuristic post apocolyptic setting however and you know I will with Proctor and Gamble pays enough to the right money whores. =)