"Gamer" movie

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"Gamer" movie

The article at Gamer">http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/05/10/gamer-movie-trailer/]Gamer Movie Trailer provides a trailer (although, when I tried, it said that it was no longer available due to a copyright claim by Lionsgate) and some information about this upcoming film. In particular, it says:

Quote:Gamer is a high-concept action thriller set in the near future, a time when mind-control technology has taken society by storm. Humans control other humans in a mass-scale, multiplayer online game. Reclusive billionaire Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall) has created the controversial form of entertainment, "Slayers," a hugely popular game that allows millions to act out their innermost fantasies and desires - online - in front of a global audience. Gaming has evolved into a terrifying new dimensionaEU| mind controlaEU| mind manipulationaEU| people playing people!

Although this is only a movie, one sad thing is that some of the elements of what it describes are already in place. Reading the various stories, such as in I">http://www.olganon.org/?q=forum/14]I Need Help for Gamers, shows that the social aspects, i.e., the other people playing, can have a very strong draw and control over the people playing, such as when they are member of a guild. Also, having direct mind control and manipulation over the people playing is not, IMHO, so far off from what is available now or will be available soon. For example, some of the threads in The">http://www.olganon.org/?q=forum/44]The Future of Gaming, such as Brain">http://www.olganon.org/?q=node/4933]Brain control headset for gamers, Second">http://www.olganon.org/?q=node/4361]Second Life Gets Brain Controls and Sony">http://www.olganon.org/?q=node/2071]Sony invention beams sights, sounds into brain, describe ways for people's minds to directly interface with the games.

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Well maybe this will wake

Well maybe this will wake people up.

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All they have to do is read

All they have to do is read our message boards. There is the script! Liz

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