<div class="gmail_quote">2011/8/19 spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Sill<br>
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<div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#1F497D">Isaac’s generation will mostly grow up completely unaware of television. It’s dead, Jim.</span></span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></blockquote>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> It's still a good source of content. Youtube is great, but it can't currently fund a production like "Game of Thrones"<span style="color:#1F497D">…</span>-Dave<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><u></u> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Ja, but I see the lack of controllability as an inherent show stopper for the post y2k generation. They just will not relate to it, very much analogous to how you and I never took up with radio dramas.</span></p>
</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think you overestimate the post y2k generation's desire for being able to control the story line. A great story doesn't require the listener's ability to influence it. Hamlet, for example, wouldn't be improved by having a handful of alternative endings that the reader/participant could select. It's not even necessarily improved by being rendered as a play or movie vs. being read. And games aren't automatically more entertaining than stories.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I never took up with radio dramas because the medium was dead, having been supplanted by TV.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> The advanced online gaming community provides plenty of content, with user input.</span></p>
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</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Gaming can be great, but it's not the same thing as video entertainment.</div><div><br></div><div>-Dave</div></div>