Digital Milestone #10
It's quite amazing too see technology advancing and how main stream society throughout the world has adapted it to their own. Podcasting didn't exsist 2 years ago and yet now major news organizations are podcasting every night. Blogs were just for the computer or technology nerd. But after the blog proven to be useful and spread, major organizations from networks to major Fortune 500 companies are blogging.
These new technology systems are not the only things that are becoming main stream. The gaming industry has been a very profitable business. It has come to the point that the video gamers have become their own subculture with the games of Everquest, Star Wars:Galaxies, and others. It got so bad that people commit suicide if their character dies with these digital worlds. (Note: People committing suicide because of Everquest or other online games has not been proven.)
Complementing these digital subcultures there are gaming tournaments. In fact recently there were two gaming tournament that just concluded where the prize money combined totaled $750000. It would be surprising if these events are televised internationally like the Olympics. They are already being televised nationally with the host country. Here are some organizations that organize these events.
I would be quite interesting to see how the computer and its software continue to dominate our lives. Will the technology continue to help the lives of human or will it take control of our lives?
posted by Jonathan Lu @ 6:50 PM
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This group of guys I was friends with got extremely into Everquest. That's all they did day and night. Unfortunately for me I started dating one of them before I realized this addiction. Nothing like seeing your boyfriend for two days a week because you both go to school in different cities, and by 'seeing' I mean watching him play Everquest for hours while I watch tv.
These subcultures if you want to call it that for various technologies is growing quite huge. Like you said Podcast, video gaming (did you know they have people that call themselves "professional gamers who perfect a game and play at tornaments to win thousands of dollars?), blogs even. It's weird how with each new technological advance or developmemt we have a subculture of followers ready and waiting to help it grow.
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