In our everyday lives, people are starting to see more and more games pop-up out of nothing, making games out of the simplest things such as brushing your teeth, or finding your way to the grocery store. On an article in CNN Jesse Schell, a game designer and professor, calls it a “gamepocalypse”. Our lives are going to turn into a constant game, if it hasn’t already.
Companies are currently working on getting Wi-Fi connected to your toothbrush so that you can show everybody how often you brush your teeth, and maybe get special rewards for brushing them a certain amount. Another example is camera’s being set into everything and on everything like game systems and possibly televisions to help analyze the user and interaction.
It is found that people these days heavily enjoy touch screen items, and companies are also taking advantage of this, setting them into restaurants, portable devices, and even cars. When you go certain places, and do specific things your going to get rewards more often that help boost the economy and the company that promotes it.
Companies are going to start using everyday products almost like cookies on your computer that track what you like to do and where you like to go through your GPS, and start trying to get you to buy more of their products you like by displaying them to you in a convenient way to get you to notice them.
Already an average kid will spend seven to eight hours on some sort of electronic media device. Kids who watch television more and play games tend to have a lower grade point average than kids who are restricted to media usage.
I think that this evolution that is coming or is here could be both a good, and a bad thing for everybody. It’s great that it’s going to be more economically friendly, but it could make people want to spend their money faster. In life, I already see it slowly turning into this, by the way were using computers the whole time for CWI.
Comments