CHANGES Our conversation was about spectator sports and how different people might re-act to the regard to potentially inclement weather which appeared to be ready to become active at the football game were on our way to see. The exact sub- ject changed, however, when one of the older crew present shifted the talk a bit to changes he felt were taking place.
“We are seein' a different kind of game today 'n our folks used to watch. We see more deeply set team work today than they ever did, and millions of people watching get an even more deliberate dose of logistic details than we on the sidelines watchin' what pieces of a play we can patch together after we see how they worked out.
Someone mentioned today's simulations are, at best, cartoon-like, or tic-tak-toe-ish in appearance...stick people and stabs of coded colors. “In the future we're going to see quickie-shot “sims” which have what you now see in miltary simulations...movement!...action!..punch!”
The poker games have come to television only recently but we are
already seeing a flow of complaints from irate losers who think it unfair to allow
promoters to have computers play their end of the games. Even if the computer is a hundred miles away and used solely for “advice” the fact that it has memories of thousands successful ploys for winning players, could proved to be irksome while taking care of the promoters modest thirty per cent take. Imagine, if you will what tiny speakers in football helmets could do. Of, another such passage to perversity, allow just enough time when dealing quiz questions for someone to find the answer on a computer.
Our talkative futurist in the back seat claimed that new technology
will evolve much faster, too. Between now and 2015 we will see growth about like the amount we have seen from 1985 until now.
There will, of course, still be people who like to dress well in layers of woolen materials and seek out the colder spots which only “bowls” can generate. Another factor currently acting to cool down attendance at games and entertainment events in general, is the ever increasing cost of tickets. Lets hope these people find some way to get prices back down to where the average one of us can attend
such events now and then.
A.L.M. November 28, 2005 [c-408wds]
