Hideo Kojima comments on the end of physical game production today in Italy:
"Today you can still download data. But at one point games will make into streaming services like Amazon or Netflix and companies will decide if you can play a game or not [...] At this point I won't have anything of my own [...] the data will be somewhere in a company and I will have the right to access it or not depending on how much this data tap is opened.
The fact that the initial data is not in my possession but is somewhere held by a private company means that I will always have that risk that for any reason, whether commercial or political, the company could prevent access to that data and therefore I will no longer be able to see that film, I will no longer be able to play that game.
This is what's happening next for the world of video games and I fear it will also happen for cinema."
Daft Punk’s score for TRON: LEGACY (2010) is one of the greatest film soundtracks of the 21st century.
The fusion of electronic music and a full orchestra gives the film a scale and identity unlike anything else.
MIT built a robot that starts as a flat plastic sheet, folds itself into shape using heat, walks around on its own, then dissolves in liquid when it’s done. No assembly required. No cleanup required. It just leaves.
El candidato a la presidencia de Francia, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, arremete contra PlayStation y Rockstar Games:
“Con GTA 6 sin disco y el anuncio de Sony de poner fin a la ventas de discos físicos, surge la pregunta de cómo consideramos estos productos.
El videojuego no es una simple mercancía, es un bien cultural y la legislación vigente debe aplicarse a él.
Abrimos la obra en 2027. Los jugadores y jugadoras también tienen derechos.”
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Eventually, even digital data will no longer be owned by individuals on their own initiative. Whenever there is a major change or accident in the world, in a country, in a government, in an idea, in a trend, access to it may suddenly be cut off.