Sega (you remember Sega) is experimenting with new brain controlled video games. Suck on that Nintendo. You come out with motion controlled games, and we'll do you one better. They're apparently pretty base right now; no virtual reality simulations or anything. But sensors monitor your brain activity giving the sensation of an "extra limb." That's not gonna make a game in itself, but think of all those games that simulate concentration or effort with repetitive button pressing. (tap X to sprint, resist torture, hang from a wire, etc) They could all be replaced by an actual mental exertion. Or games where you play a character with super/special powers could be activated mentally while you control the avatar with the traditional movement inputs.
I'm not saying this is it, but things like this make me wonder what technology I don't be able to fully adapt to. Things that the youths of tomorrow will take as second nature, but us old fogeys who wad dials on our video games growing up find difficult. If they get down 3 or 4 mental dimensions, I might be out. Or it might be easy as pie, I dunno.
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