The most truthful thing I've read so far this year, is from an interview with Claudia de Breij. She's lamenting the fact that technology has pretty much screwed up society to the point where experience does not count, unless it was recorded, photoshopped to make it look nicer, and put on Youtube. People go to concerts, parties, sports games, and instead of experiencing the event live, they just squint through a cell phone camera. And what is it good for? Just to have proof that you were actually there, while you could get nicer and better pictures from the professional photographers working around the event.
Games used to be around a table, whether it be a card game or a a board game. Now you play World of Warcraft in solitude, with thousands of others doing exactly the same thing, but not in the same room. And what is that good for? No matter the voice-over-ip, IM, live-action video, how can you honestly say you connected with someone for real, if the only experience you have with someone is his dwarf avatar in Azeroth?
Sometimes things shouldn't be recorded for later. Experience comes from being in the moment. Not from watching a copy.
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