Basalt

(Read Marvin Minsky's Omni magazine article about Telepresence)

The year is 2026 and you roll out of bed to begin your remote job. No, you are not developing Software as a Service (SaaS). You are playing a video game to operate a robot in the Southeast Oregon desert to mine and craft basalt from the Columbia River Basalt Group into fiber for wave energy conversion devices and a new coastal city.

You check for new available quests.

Brownstone Cavefish

You know, I've always wanted to be a Robot Sailor in Wisconsin

This is the yet unrealized potential of video games: to orchestrate ecologies of intelligence and machine to act in an unprecedented real time strategy to converge spatially distant and asynchronous molecular-graph delta events.