Okay, I knew that Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails was a concept album. What I didn't know was that they're was an ARG...

[link] From there, click the 'disambiguation' link and select the game

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Who knows in the future just what you'll be living as...

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So, what of Project Natal?

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Neat, Microsoft is taking Nintendo on with the sense of a new interactivity on the input to command game controls. I was in awe of some of the videos that have been around to view on the net, though only if they did indeed pull of Milo and Kate because that seems like a lot of hard work with programming.

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Well, we've been playing reality games for years. ARG is just like another film of the conceit, the need for story which tends to drive lives. Integrating it into a real life has many interesting implications; I'll let you sort them out for yourself.

Project Natal is a neat idea, especially the interactive AI element. Years from now that kind of program is likely to seem as primitive as Windows 3.1 and a mouse in as our bodies become the literal controller interface for technology; don't worry, you can still enjoy your touchscreens, they'll feel novel for a while yet.

Let's say they get really good at both aspects, the technological interface and the real life integration, and someone finally puts that that Fincher/Douglass movie "The Game" to shame.

"Three games at once? Are you mad? Look, I can't play this many at once."

"This is not a game. Only this is happening."

We're starting to play with the basic mental construct of our social realities; how will they affect us internally?

The future is weird1 Let's get there in good order, eh, wot? (Pip pip)