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It’s an interesting world we live in and the Information Technology industry is making things flow at an amazingly fast pace.
About four years ago I had never used the Internet, didn’t care for mobile phones and was quite happy with my four TV channels. Now I can’t survive without text messages, I need Sky One from 8pm on a Friday night and I didn’t need to “Log On” to the Internet. And I do mean need. I do everything with the Internet, pay bills, buy films etc etc.
Anyway I digress, the biggest thing all this has bought to us is interactivity on a wide scale, a global scale and online gaming has taking this into amazing depth. Games like Quake 3 and Counter Strike have allowed us to run around blowing the living daylights out of each other, a cathartic experience that has stopped me from strapping on an AK and going to my nearest school, well this is what the press would lead you to believe these games do. Another online game that recently caught my eye is Asheron’s Call. A game by Microsoft, who lets face it have a monopoly on your computer whether you like it or not. Within this game Microsoft have set up a vast online community, with rules and regulations. You can’t just go around killing who whether you like, there are nasty little monsters for that, but the key aspect behind the game is the community. There is an allegiance system where you have a patron to look after you and a monarch who looks after them and fellowships where money, food and items of value can be shared. You are able to talk to each other by typing much like in a chat room but you have the added bonus of the third person view allowing you a representation of yourself. As week speak I know of two people in America who have been flirting with each other for ages and are looking to meet up in the future. The world is very real. Further technology is being developed though. A company called Digimask have invented a system of allowing you to take two pictures and render a 3D version of your own head. Who knows maybe in Asheron’s Call 2 you will be able to shape your body to look just like your real self (or how you would like your body to look) and stick your real face on it. Allowing you to meet people that are more and more real. Scientists are even looking at ways to download your brain in to a computer and live in a virtual world rendering your body useless. You could live in a totally blissful world where everything is perfect and no one can be hurt etc etc.
This is where I want you to take a step back and look at the implications of what is going on, look at your friends, look at your children and look where this is all headed. Technology is great but what happens when you’re a pickled brain in a jar in this blissful world when all of a suddenly Window AR (alternative reality) suddenly crashes?? Then you’ve had it. But there are more implications then just that. Computer games are fun, educational and enjoyable but as with everything they should be in moderation. Addiction is a key element to this and I know people that have withdrawal symptoms from games and who dream about them in their sleep. They talk about them all day at work and their life becomes that game. I look at kids I know and all they do is sit inside and play games every evening, there are certain experiences that I had in my younger years that they will never have and a computer game will never be able to recreate. They’ve never fallen out of a tree house they were building and broke their arm, they’ve never been chased across three acres of orchard for scrumping a farmers apples, they’ve never been caught going 45mph lying down on a skate board on the steepest hill in the area. This to me is very sad. I am not saying that you should stop playing your games as there are a lot of positive sides to them, they help increase coordination, teach you computer skills and can often be cathartic. I just want you to realise that your body is a beautiful thing and like the Intel Pentium 4 processor, it will be out of date before you realise, and there’s no upgrade. Use your body while it is young, abuse it any way you like, eat Pukka Pies, drink Beer, listen to loud music, jump on your bed, climb mountains, go surfing, your body is the one thing in life that you truly do own and you must not let this beauty slip you by. It’s all very well saying that you are social and you have 30-40 friends but if you have never met them face-to-face then what is the point?
Take a step back from this world, for one day a week and see how it goes. Then try two days a week discover the Wide Wonderful World, there are many cultures and many experiences both good and bad to be had and you aren’t going to find them whilst your stuck in front of your computer reading this.
Log off, tune out and enjoy life, come back to when you have some real experiences to share with this cyber community not just how many frags you scored or how many levels you went up last night.
Experience the Real World!
About four years ago I had never used the Internet, didn’t care for mobile phones and was quite happy with my four TV channels. Now I can’t survive without text messages, I need Sky One from 8pm on a Friday night and I didn’t need to “Log On” to the Internet. And I do mean need. I do everything with the Internet, pay bills, buy films etc etc.
Anyway I digress, the biggest thing all this has bought to us is interactivity on a wide scale, a global scale and online gaming has taking this into amazing depth. Games like Quake 3 and Counter Strike have allowed us to run around blowing the living daylights out of each other, a cathartic experience that has stopped me from strapping on an AK and going to my nearest school, well this is what the press would lead you to believe these games do. Another online game that recently caught my eye is Asheron’s Call. A game by Microsoft, who lets face it have a monopoly on your computer whether you like it or not. Within this game Microsoft have set up a vast online community, with rules and regulations. You can’t just go around killing who whether you like, there are nasty little monsters for that, but the key aspect behind the game is the community. There is an allegiance system where you have a patron to look after you and a monarch who looks after them and fellowships where money, food and items of value can be shared. You are able to talk to each other by typing much like in a chat room but you have the added bonus of the third person view allowing you a representation of yourself. As week speak I know of two people in America who have been flirting with each other for ages and are looking to meet up in the future. The world is very real. Further technology is being developed though. A company called Digimask have invented a system of allowing you to take two pictures and render a 3D version of your own head. Who knows maybe in Asheron’s Call 2 you will be able to shape your body to look just like your real self (or how you would like your body to look) and stick your real face on it. Allowing you to meet people that are more and more real. Scientists are even looking at ways to download your brain in to a computer and live in a virtual world rendering your body useless. You could live in a totally blissful world where everything is perfect and no one can be hurt etc etc.
This is where I want you to take a step back and look at the implications of what is going on, look at your friends, look at your children and look where this is all headed. Technology is great but what happens when you’re a pickled brain in a jar in this blissful world when all of a suddenly Window AR (alternative reality) suddenly crashes?? Then you’ve had it. But there are more implications then just that. Computer games are fun, educational and enjoyable but as with everything they should be in moderation. Addiction is a key element to this and I know people that have withdrawal symptoms from games and who dream about them in their sleep. They talk about them all day at work and their life becomes that game. I look at kids I know and all they do is sit inside and play games every evening, there are certain experiences that I had in my younger years that they will never have and a computer game will never be able to recreate. They’ve never fallen out of a tree house they were building and broke their arm, they’ve never been chased across three acres of orchard for scrumping a farmers apples, they’ve never been caught going 45mph lying down on a skate board on the steepest hill in the area. This to me is very sad. I am not saying that you should stop playing your games as there are a lot of positive sides to them, they help increase coordination, teach you computer skills and can often be cathartic. I just want you to realise that your body is a beautiful thing and like the Intel Pentium 4 processor, it will be out of date before you realise, and there’s no upgrade. Use your body while it is young, abuse it any way you like, eat Pukka Pies, drink Beer, listen to loud music, jump on your bed, climb mountains, go surfing, your body is the one thing in life that you truly do own and you must not let this beauty slip you by. It’s all very well saying that you are social and you have 30-40 friends but if you have never met them face-to-face then what is the point?
Take a step back from this world, for one day a week and see how it goes. Then try two days a week discover the Wide Wonderful World, there are many cultures and many experiences both good and bad to be had and you aren’t going to find them whilst your stuck in front of your computer reading this.
Log off, tune out and enjoy life, come back to when you have some real experiences to share with this cyber community not just how many frags you scored or how many levels you went up last night.
Experience the Real World!
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A good original title i see.....come back mate!
That's why I still survive with 4.5 tv channels (ch 5 is sooo bad!), and no mobile! Well, actually I need to get E4... but I won't get a mobile for ages!
Sonic
Sonic
It’s an interesting world we live in and the Information Technology industry is making things flow at an amazingly fast pace.
About four years ago I had never used the Internet, didn’t care for mobile phones and was quite happy with my four TV channels. Now I can’t survive without text messages, I need Sky One from 8pm on a Friday night and I didn’t need to “Log On” to the Internet. And I do mean need. I do everything with the Internet, pay bills, buy films etc etc.
Anyway I digress, the biggest thing all this has bought to us is interactivity on a wide scale, a global scale and online gaming has taking this into amazing depth. Games like Quake 3 and Counter Strike have allowed us to run around blowing the living daylights out of each other, a cathartic experience that has stopped me from strapping on an AK and going to my nearest school, well this is what the press would lead you to believe these games do. Another online game that recently caught my eye is Asheron’s Call. A game by Microsoft, who lets face it have a monopoly on your computer whether you like it or not. Within this game Microsoft have set up a vast online community, with rules and regulations. You can’t just go around killing who whether you like, there are nasty little monsters for that, but the key aspect behind the game is the community. There is an allegiance system where you have a patron to look after you and a monarch who looks after them and fellowships where money, food and items of value can be shared. You are able to talk to each other by typing much like in a chat room but you have the added bonus of the third person view allowing you a representation of yourself. As week speak I know of two people in America who have been flirting with each other for ages and are looking to meet up in the future. The world is very real. Further technology is being developed though. A company called Digimask have invented a system of allowing you to take two pictures and render a 3D version of your own head. Who knows maybe in Asheron’s Call 2 you will be able to shape your body to look just like your real self (or how you would like your body to look) and stick your real face on it. Allowing you to meet people that are more and more real. Scientists are even looking at ways to download your brain in to a computer and live in a virtual world rendering your body useless. You could live in a totally blissful world where everything is perfect and no one can be hurt etc etc.
This is where I want you to take a step back and look at the implications of what is going on, look at your friends, look at your children and look where this is all headed. Technology is great but what happens when you’re a pickled brain in a jar in this blissful world when all of a suddenly Window AR (alternative reality) suddenly crashes?? Then you’ve had it. But there are more implications then just that. Computer games are fun, educational and enjoyable but as with everything they should be in moderation. Addiction is a key element to this and I know people that have withdrawal symptoms from games and who dream about them in their sleep. They talk about them all day at work and their life becomes that game. I look at kids I know and all they do is sit inside and play games every evening, there are certain experiences that I had in my younger years that they will never have and a computer game will never be able to recreate. They’ve never fallen out of a tree house they were building and broke their arm, they’ve never been chased across three acres of orchard for scrumping a farmers apples, they’ve never been caught going 45mph lying down on a skate board on the steepest hill in the area. This to me is very sad. I am not saying that you should stop playing your games as there are a lot of positive sides to them, they help increase coordination, teach you computer skills and can often be cathartic. I just want you to realise that your body is a beautiful thing and like the Intel Pentium 4 processor, it will be out of date before you realise, and there’s no upgrade. Use your body while it is young, abuse it any way you like, eat Pukka Pies, drink Beer, listen to loud music, jump on your bed, climb mountains, go surfing, your body is the one thing in life that you truly do own and you must not let this beauty slip you by. It’s all very well saying that you are social and you have 30-40 friends but if you have never met them face-to-face then what is the point?
Take a step back from this world, for one day a week and see how it goes. Then try two days a week discover the Wide Wonderful World, there are many cultures and many experiences both good and bad to be had and you aren’t going to find them whilst your stuck in front of your computer reading this.
Log off, tune out and enjoy life, come back to when you have some real experiences to share with this cyber community not just how many frags you scored or how many levels you went up last night.
Experience the Real World!
About four years ago I had never used the Internet, didn’t care for mobile phones and was quite happy with my four TV channels. Now I can’t survive without text messages, I need Sky One from 8pm on a Friday night and I didn’t need to “Log On” to the Internet. And I do mean need. I do everything with the Internet, pay bills, buy films etc etc.
Anyway I digress, the biggest thing all this has bought to us is interactivity on a wide scale, a global scale and online gaming has taking this into amazing depth. Games like Quake 3 and Counter Strike have allowed us to run around blowing the living daylights out of each other, a cathartic experience that has stopped me from strapping on an AK and going to my nearest school, well this is what the press would lead you to believe these games do. Another online game that recently caught my eye is Asheron’s Call. A game by Microsoft, who lets face it have a monopoly on your computer whether you like it or not. Within this game Microsoft have set up a vast online community, with rules and regulations. You can’t just go around killing who whether you like, there are nasty little monsters for that, but the key aspect behind the game is the community. There is an allegiance system where you have a patron to look after you and a monarch who looks after them and fellowships where money, food and items of value can be shared. You are able to talk to each other by typing much like in a chat room but you have the added bonus of the third person view allowing you a representation of yourself. As week speak I know of two people in America who have been flirting with each other for ages and are looking to meet up in the future. The world is very real. Further technology is being developed though. A company called Digimask have invented a system of allowing you to take two pictures and render a 3D version of your own head. Who knows maybe in Asheron’s Call 2 you will be able to shape your body to look just like your real self (or how you would like your body to look) and stick your real face on it. Allowing you to meet people that are more and more real. Scientists are even looking at ways to download your brain in to a computer and live in a virtual world rendering your body useless. You could live in a totally blissful world where everything is perfect and no one can be hurt etc etc.
This is where I want you to take a step back and look at the implications of what is going on, look at your friends, look at your children and look where this is all headed. Technology is great but what happens when you’re a pickled brain in a jar in this blissful world when all of a suddenly Window AR (alternative reality) suddenly crashes?? Then you’ve had it. But there are more implications then just that. Computer games are fun, educational and enjoyable but as with everything they should be in moderation. Addiction is a key element to this and I know people that have withdrawal symptoms from games and who dream about them in their sleep. They talk about them all day at work and their life becomes that game. I look at kids I know and all they do is sit inside and play games every evening, there are certain experiences that I had in my younger years that they will never have and a computer game will never be able to recreate. They’ve never fallen out of a tree house they were building and broke their arm, they’ve never been chased across three acres of orchard for scrumping a farmers apples, they’ve never been caught going 45mph lying down on a skate board on the steepest hill in the area. This to me is very sad. I am not saying that you should stop playing your games as there are a lot of positive sides to them, they help increase coordination, teach you computer skills and can often be cathartic. I just want you to realise that your body is a beautiful thing and like the Intel Pentium 4 processor, it will be out of date before you realise, and there’s no upgrade. Use your body while it is young, abuse it any way you like, eat Pukka Pies, drink Beer, listen to loud music, jump on your bed, climb mountains, go surfing, your body is the one thing in life that you truly do own and you must not let this beauty slip you by. It’s all very well saying that you are social and you have 30-40 friends but if you have never met them face-to-face then what is the point?
Take a step back from this world, for one day a week and see how it goes. Then try two days a week discover the Wide Wonderful World, there are many cultures and many experiences both good and bad to be had and you aren’t going to find them whilst your stuck in front of your computer reading this.
Log off, tune out and enjoy life, come back to when you have some real experiences to share with this cyber community not just how many frags you scored or how many levels you went up last night.
Experience the Real World!
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