{"id":120596,"date":"2021-03-16T03:22:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T10:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/neuralink-co-founder-were-gonna-need-a-better-term-than-video-game"},"modified":"2021-03-16T03:22:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T10:22:29","slug":"neuralink-co-founder-were-gonna-need-a-better-term-than-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/neuralink-co-founder-were-gonna-need-a-better-term-than-video-game","title":{"rendered":"Neuralink Co-Founder: \u201cWe\u2019re Gonna Need a Better Term Than \u2018Video Game\u2018\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuralink-co-founder-were-gonna-need-a-better-term-than-video-game2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With powerful engines, near-photorealistic graphics, and the ability to build incredible, immersive worlds, it\u2019s hard to imagine what the next big technological advance in gaming might be.<\/p>\n<p>Based on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/max_hodak\/status\/1370871516477366273\" class=\"\" >a recent tweet<\/a> by Neuralink co-founder and President Max Hodak, the word might not even apply. In it, he hinted \u2014 vaguely, to be fair \u2014 that whatever forms of entertainment get programmed into neural implants and brain-computer interfaces will represent a paradigm shift that moves beyond the current terminology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re gonna need a better term than \u2018video game\u2019 once we start programming for more of the sensorium,\u201d Hodak tweeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With powerful engines, near-photorealistic graphics, and the ability to build incredible, immersive worlds, it\u2019s hard to imagine what the next big technological advance in gaming might be. Based on a recent tweet by Neuralink co-founder and President Max Hodak, the word might not even apply. In it, he hinted \u2014 vaguely, to be fair \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1509,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-entertainment","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}