A little something to make you think on a Sunday morning…
Check out this BoingBoing post on how there are potentially different styles of computer gaming that have yet to be explored:
Macroeconomic simulations
Social interactions
Making roleplaying meaningful in digital games
Games-as-theater
Geopolitics
The love story…
You could practically re-write this deck as a tale of personal communications, and how we’re still only part-way through exploring the different types of applications people can benefit from in maintaining their social relationships and masquerading physical distance. The slides about the Sims game could equally be about social networking, agents and telephony.
Just think of the information people store that is used in a phone call, the prompts that initiate the call, the actions that are possible during the call. Address books, alarms, calendars, voicemails, etc. What if the information found new outlets, new ways to combine, new expressions, and richer interactions?
Thought I’d point this one out as it shows a way of thinking — systematise the space, understand the axes on which value is being created, map out how much of that space is currently explored.
Teach ‘em to think, rather than tell ‘em the answers. :)
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