Most Disturbing Presentation Ever: Our Tech Nightmare ("Skinner Box") DICE 2010

Big Brother, Video Game Psychology & Obedient Humans living inside Skinner Boxes. This was a presentation at the recent DICE 2010 Summit.


- Cereal boxes with screen
- Soda cans with Wi-fi
- Tatoos with Adsense
- REM in-ear entertainment
- Sensors that sense our emotions
- Gov't rewards for supporting political candidates
- Eye sensors that track our reading

See: 5 Creepy Ways Video Games Are Trying to Get You Addicted http://bit.ly/98H68g

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Big Brother
• Simulacrum
• 1984
• Brave New World
• Technological Society
• Gaming
• Skinner Box
• Jesse Schell
• DICE 2010
• Randy Pausch
• GDC
• RPG

[rbc13183]

For those of you who have misunderstood what Jesse was trying to communicate, please go here /watch?v=orBMJ-T2k3I

[globalbeehive]

@rbc13183: this video you recommend, "The Pleasure Revolution", is about extending a more lush and all-encompassing Simulacra for the masses, to blend the real with the virtual, creating the hyperreal (see my video postings on Baudrillard). When reality becomes confused with virtuality, society can be bent into any form imaginable. Jesse is an elite front man, and he is totally transparent.

[dancelovr16]

I think there are good and bad things about the future he presented. Hopefully, people will be able to set their *own* achievements and goals within the game system. If that is the case, then I see no problem with harnessing the power of games. The homework and health insurance game systems seem like great ideas, but I'm much less enthusiastic about companies using e-tatoos to advertise.

[globalbeehive]

@dancelovr16: those that create, design, and control the "game" are the ones who will win the game.

[Monkeysarentcool]

He basically organized a plan that companies might probably use now. The worst part is that...there's an app for that. It's an app that gives you "points" to eventually save up for airplane travel miles and iTunes gift cards. You get points for visiting stores and scanning products, with bonus points for specific specials each day. Pretty Scary.

[globalbeehive]

@Monkeysarentcool : this self-absorbed techno-punk has never organized anything in his entire life, nor had an original thought. This turkey is just a front-man for others. He's sold his soul. For what, I don't know.

[jaraha]

"Our grandchildren will be able to see what we do." LOLOLOL

Like anyone would want to watch a bunch of self-absorbed, petty idiots earning fucking POINTS for doing things OUR GRANDPARENTS did just because they knew it made you a better person.

[MikeHansonArchives]

The speaker looks like he gets a lot of masturbation points.

[JSasRays]

this is fucking dumb.

[Raphael431]

Great. I'll be sure to look more forward to seeing a whole bunch of adults in the future with minds of children. If this is where the simulacra is headed in the further creation of the hyper real, I want no part of it. There is no point to having a virtual world in an economy based on a point system. For those that support this kind of horseshit stand near a cliff, or point a loaded gun to your head; and ask yourself,"Is life one big game?".

[MrToastedtoad]

I fucking hate games. Now I know why, the designers are ass holes.

[MrCz0840]

Hey, you wipped your ass...+10 points for you. I hope this never comes to reality!!!

[Madkre8tor]

video games, and the internet (despite what Al Gore claims) were both developed by the Pentagon... in order to create mindless killers to staff their NWO armies. hello.

[phattown213]

this is nothing new. read "Feed" by MT Anderson.

[LunarOrb12]

That is extremely unintelligent.

[MRxLOKI]

Real life would so much better with XP

[TheFurlock]

its already here in infancy.