{"id":36151,"date":"2011-06-11T21:09:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T21:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/the-swell-of-content-gene-expression\/"},"modified":"2011-06-11T21:09:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T21:09:03","slug":"the-swell-of-content-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-swell-of-content-gene-expression.php","title":{"rendered":"The swell of content | Gene Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the 1980s my family went and visited friends in Queens for a week in August. Down the street from the house there was a small shop with an arcade machine with Legendary Wings<\/a>. Every day I’d start out with a fistful of quarters and pop them into the machine to get round after round. Eventually I purchased a version of the game for the original NES<\/a>, and got so proficient at it that I could win basically on mental autopilot.<\/p>

I thought of that when listening to a story on the radio about the decline of the home video gaming industry as a revenue generator<\/b>. Here’s the relevant section of the transcript<\/a>:<\/p>

HENN: It’s in a state of flux. Sales and revenue for the big gaming consoles — like Nintendo and Xbox — actually fell last year something like 13 percent. It’s still a $10 billion industry, but that was a big drop.<\/strong><\/p>

VIGELAND: It is indeed. What’s going on?<\/p>

HENN: Some of the smartest people in the industry say the price of what people are willing to pay for an hour of entertainment, for a video game, is dropping like a rock. Bing Gordon was the creative director for ...<\/p><\/blockquote>

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