Ok, this needs to be watched by anyone who has an interest in games, and everyone else because it has a very interesting explanation on where the world is going, technologically speaking.

The world will be full of more sensors, will know more of what we do, when we do it and will be giving us more and more incentives to help motivate us to do it.

Also, I wish I went to school based on an experience points system. Hell yeah.

What about you? Do you see the world going the same way? Do you want it to? I certainly do, I’m looking forward to the coming technological jumps and divergences. Maybe my life will be on record, maybe I’ll have a score associated with my life. So what? Gives my kids something to aim to be better than.

Ok, so this post is just about a few things that I’ve found around and about on the internet lately that I thought I would share.I don’t usually just post a bunch of random things, but I wanted to collect them somewhere even if I didn’t have a surrounding commentary for all of them.

First up, this music video (via CAD) is awesome. Watch it. Then go learn more.

While I’m on a video kick, this trailer (also via CAD) is also pretty damn impressive.

Also, apparently Google plans on getting into the high-speed internet service industry by making fiber optic infrastructure. Hopefully this heralds a move to faster internet speeds for the US, and then the rest of the world. (via DVICE)

Also, the idea that internet content could be held to the standards of any community able to view said content is as scary as it is ridiculous.

The Starcraft II beta also opened this week… no, I’m not in it. Yet. Not that I’ve had that much time to spend playing games recently. It’s something I should probably make more time for, it’d be good for my brain.

… that I saw this and thought that someone should make it into a game?

So, I was just catching up on a few older posts on my lovely friend Andrea’s blog, and this one really struck me. Read it, then read on.

For me, it wasn’t that I had glasses, I have my father’s eyes and don’t need them, unlike my siblings. That being said, I was the kid who should have had glasses – and all the rest, for that matter. For some reason, impressions of me were often characterized by stereotypical nerditry (not a word, but possibly should be), sometimes followed by the occasional confused look when people realised that I didn’t actually have them. I had some phantom appearance that I don’t think really went anywhere until probably early high-school, when I suddenly went from counting my friends on one hand to socially trying to understand the varying degrees of friendship that comes from having dozens of them.

I think her comments about her younger self ring very true to me, and I periodically wonder what I would tell myself if I was given the opportunity to go back in time. I think letting myself know that the bullies will (for the most part) grow up, that growing pains are temporary and that I will make amazing connections with people around the world who truly see and love me for who I am would probably be what I would say. I know I will never be able to return to those times and say these things, and that if I did I would possibly grow up to be a different person. My experiences, good and bad, shaped me into who I am through the lessons that I’ve learned.

At the very least, I look at it this way: that desire to inform your younger self is part of being a parent. Thinking like this gives me a new perspective on my own parents, and what they must have been thinking as they tried their best to raise me. I wonder, will I try to pass these lessons on to my own children? Will they listen?

What do you think?