The Gaming World of 2025

Glen Heimstra, the founder of futurist.com, author of "Turning The Future Into Revenue" and visiting scholar at the Human Interface Technology Lab at the University of Washington predicts what video games will be like 25, 50 and 200 years from now.

Fifty years from now, the difference between real life and virtual life will probably be indistinguishable; it will be possible to be confused. And certainly that would be true 100 years from now.

Hmm, by my math, 2025 is only 18 years from now. Anyway, does anyone else remember in the early '90s when virtual reality was poised to be the next big thing? There were even kiosks in suburban malls where you could pay a couple of bucks to put on the bulky helmet and goggles and look like an idiot. Nowadays, people wear the bluetooth headsets and if you don't notice and think they're talking to you, you're the one that looks like an idiot.