The Next 30 Years

Charlie Stross is one of my favourite current sci-fi authors, and this post goes some way to explaining why.

It’s the text of his keynote speech for LOGIN 2009, a conference for online games developers, and the speech is about the changes he sees coming in gaming over the next thirty years.  He’s already written a novel based around some of these ideas (“Halting State“) and is currently writing the sequel to it, so I think it’s fair to say he’s done a fair amount of research and thinking about this subject already.

All told, it’s an interesting and entertaining read – and I’m sure it would’ve been even better to see him make the speech in person.