Nolan Bushnell: Some kind of imbecile?
Thanks to OldManMurray for the title.
Check out Bushnell’s quote about gaming in 2020 from this Gamasutra article: "Traditional banquets with gaming, in the 10th and 12th century always had food and drink with them… so the living room, I think, of 2020, will likely have some kind of interactive coffee table. There will probably be an internet connection to some PC."
So Nolan Bushnell’s vision of the future of gaming is that your PC will connect to your… table. And he thinks this because people "always had food and drink" at their LAN parties in the 10th and 12th centuries. I guess they skipped the eating and drinking in the 11th century, but I’m not really sure.
I guess I’m just not seeing how plugging your computer into the fucking table has anything to do with anything. Are you talking about some type of magic table that can just materialise food and drink, like in Star Trek? Or perhaps in the Nolan Bushnell future your PC will send signals to your table to make it flash some LEDs to remind you to stop corpse-camping that asshole hunter ganked your alt and maybe take a bite of your sandwich. I don’t know, maybe he means you’ll be able to order pizza via the internet and your table will go pay the deliveryman. Any hints, Nolan? Nolan?
