- Nov 12, 2008
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The Game Layer
A recent TED talk explains how this past decade was the decade about building the framework for social networking, and that is more or less "done". I agree with this. He then goes on to explain how this next layer that we will be building this decade is called "the game layer". Where everything we do will become a game of sorts.
Throughout this entire talk I felt unnerved by this. I have this really strong internal resistance to this game layer that is said to be forming (and I can see it forming). What it really comes down to it is seeking to create a form of compatition in nearly everything that is done around us. I detest competition and I largely avoid it. Many of the examples he gave that are present now, I avoid. I do not like feeling like I am forced to compete in a sense to make things known, or to gain rewards. Really, it seems like this game layer is a drive to remount this whole "Survival of the fittest" mentality in a totally new way. And this scares me. I don't like it at all.
The talk itself is interesting, but I will be honest, I do not like the guy who is explaining this. He seems so eager, so excited to have this form and be intergral to socieity. This game layer does have benifits to emerge from it, I do see that. However the negatives seem to outweigh them by a large amount. In a sense, I feel like this game layer is going to cause much of the word to put compassion in the back seat because socieity will now in a sense "require" this mentality.
Thoughts?
A recent TED talk explains how this past decade was the decade about building the framework for social networking, and that is more or less "done". I agree with this. He then goes on to explain how this next layer that we will be building this decade is called "the game layer". Where everything we do will become a game of sorts.
Throughout this entire talk I felt unnerved by this. I have this really strong internal resistance to this game layer that is said to be forming (and I can see it forming). What it really comes down to it is seeking to create a form of compatition in nearly everything that is done around us. I detest competition and I largely avoid it. Many of the examples he gave that are present now, I avoid. I do not like feeling like I am forced to compete in a sense to make things known, or to gain rewards. Really, it seems like this game layer is a drive to remount this whole "Survival of the fittest" mentality in a totally new way. And this scares me. I don't like it at all.
The talk itself is interesting, but I will be honest, I do not like the guy who is explaining this. He seems so eager, so excited to have this form and be intergral to socieity. This game layer does have benifits to emerge from it, I do see that. However the negatives seem to outweigh them by a large amount. In a sense, I feel like this game layer is going to cause much of the word to put compassion in the back seat because socieity will now in a sense "require" this mentality.
Thoughts?