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POPSSuperstruct Begins The human species has a long history of overcoming tremendous obstacles, often coming out stronger than before. Indeed, some anthropologists argue that human intelligence emerged as the consequence of the last major ice age, a period of enormous environmental stress demanding flexibility, foresight and creativity on the part of the small numbers of early Homo sapiens. Historically, those who have prophesied doom for human civilization have been proven wrong, time and again, by the capacity of our species to both adapt to and transform our conditions. It is in this context that the Global Extinction Awareness System (GEAS) offers its forecast of the likely extinction of humankind within the next quarter-century.
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POPSQuit High School To Play "Guitar Hero" I guess he has a future as a salesman, at least. I find the whole Guitar Hero thing disturbing. Why not just learn to play a real guitar? I guess it's another bent on virtual reality.
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POPS"Do Humans Have 23 years to Go?" Play Superstruct and Find Out -Invent the Future! “The survival horizon identifies the point in time after which a threatened population is expected to experience a catastrophic collapse,” GEAS president Audrey Chen said. “It is the point from which it a species is unlikely to recover. By identifying a survival horizon of 2042, GEAS has given human civilization a definite deadline for making substantive changes to planet and practices.” According to Chen, the latest GEAS simulation harnessed over 70 petabytes of environmental, economic, and demographic data, and was cross-validated by ten different probabilistic models. The GEAS models revealed a potentially terminal combination of five so-called “super-threats”, which represent a collision of environmental, economic, and social risks.
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POPSThe Future of Gaming I have tried to capture some hints about the future of gaming. As the author remarks: "For now, the only way to predict the future of gaming is to predict that all predictions will be wrong." Yet, it seems that in the not so far future, games are going to deeply affect the way we perceive our world. Especially the younger generations will be affected, and to some extent it is already happening. It seems that eventually games will not only affect our perception of the world, they WILL become a substantial part of our world.
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POPSIs Nintendo a snake oil salesman? It's true. Games like Wii Fit and Brain Age play to your mental and physical insecurities, but there's no real proof that they actually improve either. From experience, Wii Fit is more motivational tool than workout machine: http://is.gd/Bo3 EDIT: I should emphasize that this is clipped from an opinion piece, so it's not definitively declaring Nintendo's products bogus.
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POPSCommodere Returns? The C-64 was the best machine I ever owned, hands down. Sure it was slow and somewhat clumsy, but it was reliable and endlessly fun.
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POPSThe meanings of wealth in the 21st century I reckon Alvin and Heidi Toffler have done it again! This futurist supercouple launched a new book several months ago about — well, just what the description says! I haven't read this personality, but their seminal Future Shock (written in the 70s, even considering a concise description of what would later be known as Massive Multiplayer Online Gaming!) is one of my all-time faves. Worth checking out if you... use the Internet. :)
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POPSInterview with Nintendo President Satoru Iwata I'm really interested to see how Nintendo pulls through the next few years. They have some incredible devices, all of which will be naturally web-enabled in the near future. And their wi-fi deals (e.g. with McDonalds) are one to keep an eye on.
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