The studio 360 video presentation examines the creation of a video game that uses microbes, single celled organisms to control the characters in the game. In this game, the inventor Ingmar Riedel-Kruse, a professor at Stanford University uses pacman for inspiration. In order to make the characters move you apply an electric shock to the the organisms in order to maneuver them in a certain direction, these actions are then transmitted to a computer screen. This was a major shock for me to see that this type of technology has been invented where you use actual living organisms to control the movement of characters. Although I know that we have progressed technologically, this is something I have never heard of. Although I don’t understand the exact purpose of this type of invention, I do think it has the potential to be something extremely useful in education and learning.
It is very interesting to see how computer games are starting to be more advanced. I think that it is a good thing that such a progress has been made about computer games technology. But I am not sure if that is a good thing for people. There are already speculations about spending too much time in front of computers and not interacting with people on a daily basis. If people will start playing even more because technology will just make is easy for them to play games by making it interesting, people will be isolated and eventually will stop interacting with others and become socially awkward.