Steve Perlman, one of the founders of Google has come up with a new gaming system. His new gaming system is called OnLive gaming. It allows the user to stream any video game to their TV or PC. The only piece of hardware needed is a 99$ box and controllers. According to Perlman, "Being tied to physical media is gradually dying away". I agree with this statement. Atleast as far as I'm concerned, the less hardware there is to malfunction, the better! However, OnLive gaming has to deal with many issues. According to the article, many consumers don't want to have yet another box attached to their televisions and the large gaming companies have a lot more financial resources than OnLive Gaming.
This is also another great example of the democratizing ability of new technologies. After listening to the podcast about piracy, it struck me that something needs to be done to stop it. This OnLive Gaming system is piracy-proof. Since the games don't come on CD's, it is impossible to make copies. To me, this is democratizing because Stever Perlman saw that we had a piracy problem and used his ingenuity to do something about it. Personally, I like the idea of having on-demand games. It's almost like Netflix. We'll have to wait and see if this gaming system is successful!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/technology/29onlive.html?ref=technology
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