The Future is Gaming!
Wow, I just watched part of a 24 hour live gaming session by a gamer who goes by the name of DrLupo on Twitch.tv. If you haven’t heard of Twitch, no worries, you will. Jeff Bezos bought the platform for a ridiculous sum of money but he will make even a larger ridiculous sum of money as it eventually overtakes and consumes all traditional media outlets like broadcast tv, netflix, disney, etc. It’s insane to think about but it will happen.
Why? Because it levels the playing field, literally for everyone. And the coolest part of the thing I just watched – it was all for charity. Over $600k raised in 24 hours for St. Jude’s Children’s
Think about it; in the
Anyways, individual men or women can no longer raise armies so
So why am I suddenly so intrigued by gaming and the whole new empire building? Well, the potential economic gains are ginormous! DrLupo’s live feed was watched by over 60k people at any one time and potentially 48 million! Think about that – a guy in his house, playing video games gets more eyeballs on him than many ‘professional’ sports events. Gaming events are taking over stadiums and 100k in attendance is not unusual. Did I mention he raised over $600k in less than 24 hours?
So now the challenge, at least for me and hopefully others, is to figure out how to use this all for good instead of evil. And why is it so highly male dominated? And how can we use this to benefit education? and space exploration? Yes, my goals are not very transparent but at least they are benevolent.
Thank you DrLupo for choosing good.
More soon as I start this journey.