Scenario Planning

This is post is mainly for an assignment, it may not make a lot of sense, its about the future, and who thinks about that?

Scenario Planners of course!!!

I'm going to work backwards, much like star wars. So here's my first, uh, fourth future scenario...

Scenario IV: ‘One’ Box

The PC and games console will merge together this will create a new hybrid culture. They will be sold in several variants as to cater for users who have different types of interests and preferences. Separate internal components will not be sold to the general public and home modding will be deemed illegal to prevent tampering, minimize piracy and other uses the machine was not intended for.

The machine will be designed to do everything that a personal computer and games console did and more; it will be portable, convenient and fashionable.

The machine will be heavily criticized for diminishing the consumer’s individuality and creativity critics will claim that the uses for a personal computer can’t be catered for through a handful of marketed variants with only subtle software and hardware differences.

This may provoke a rebellion a new social channel. People will want to remain anonymous, work on projects and experiment. Their voice has been cut off by the ‘One’ box causing rebels to modify the system in order for it meet their requirements.

Open source is scorned upon by the big corporation behind the ‘One’ box. File sharing becomes tedious and complex; forms must be filled in for something to be shared legally, varying in complexity depending on the size and format of the file looking to be shared.