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[sophiaserpentia]

Someone in worldofwarcraft posted this morning about a dream in which President Bush makes a PR appearance in one of the high-level sections of the game, pulling mobs like a newb and nearly causing a wipe.

A significant portion of the population plays online computer games like World of Warcraft -- and it seems likely that this portion will grow even larger. If the online gaming population continues to explode, how soon do you think it will be that politicians will actually feel compelled to make PR appearances in gaming universes of this sort? Or will the growth in the gaming population level off before it reaches that point?

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[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

By the time those people get into power, the world's changed around them.

Even so, for a while they will call the shots. I'm just wondering if iGeneration politicians will have to make speeches in front of the Cathedral of Light in Stormwind and have paid assistants who answer the public's IM inquiries.

[amokk]

I've never heard iGeneration used before. Interesting. I want a better generation label, dammit. I prefer "13th Generation" over Generation X or MTV Generation, though.

Anyway...

Yes, I do see them (hell, everyone in 20 years) having an internet publicist as much as a real-world one, having an IM and all that.

As far as WOW, I don't see that ever happening. But hey, I've been wrong before. ;)