I think the logical conclusion will be a YC '13 startup that aggregates and streamlines all your different karma/points/favs/likes/checkin accounts and implements NFC into it all for points across the board. Integrate it IRL by giving points for things like "I brushed my teeth twice", "I filed the TPS report", "I got my sister a birthday present". And by then, IPv6 would be fully rolled out and everything (right guys?), even your toothbrush, would have its own IP and small nano chip with a minimal TCP/IP stack to tweet/checkin/+1 your life-game account on namb.ly (YC '13). The line between what is Real and what is part of the great RPG of life we all become part of gets further blurred with the further advancement of augmented reality and its ubiquity in our phones, glasses, contact lenses, electric car windshields, and holographic advertisements everywhere. The future is going to be a blast.
But as always, things progress and get amazing and we live in yesterday's future, yet no one is that impressed. I fear the day we go meh to the RPG of life that will inevitably develop in the future. Only then will we reminisce and wonder, "what was it like to be truly human?".
But as always, things progress and get amazing and we live in yesterday's future, yet no one is that impressed. I fear the day we go meh to the RPG of life that will inevitably develop in the future. Only then will we reminisce and wonder, "what was it like to be truly human?".