Celebrities in our culture are typically pop music stars, models, actors and the wealthy.  I don’t know too much about celebrity news these days, but what I do know I hear from someone else. I used to check Perez Hilton.com for celebrity gossip, but I began to feel that it was either too gushy or too mean, so I stopped reading.

Also, I’ve never really cared too much about the scandals of sad little rich girls and boys. The real celebrities are the people making progress towards cures for life-threatening diseases, a solution to global warming, and the technology to provide clean drinking water to people all over the world. This sort of ‘real’ element is lacking in celebrity media coverage today as our ‘stars’ are increasingly unreachable people placed on pedestals, people who are on a plane high above the common man.

This of course makes us even less interested in their goings-on since we cannot identify with them in any way. Their status inherently creates this wall, a clear distinction between us and them.

Personally, I’d rather read a blog about real celebrities, people who are making the world a better place.

I think gaming could become more interactive between two real people playing virtual chess or poker with one another online, but maybe for real prizes. I also think that the advancement of graphics and 3-D technology will continue to mesmerize and attract the consumer in RPGs (role-playing games in which there is a lead character).

For some, the convenience of being able to download a game on a smartphone or mobile device might allow the pass-time of playing video games to trump reading books or magazines as activities done during time otherwise spent idle (for example, in a doctor’s office lobby or at a subway platform).

Also, Facebook is as big a game as anything else. Some people collect friends, try to garner responses by saying something shocking as a status update, or leave a status update as an open-ended question, attempting to force a response from their network of friends. The next step is to either deal with people in the real world or not at all. Facebook is a time Vampire.