Thanks so much - jacking into energy spheres - check! Can't wait to tell my professors. Best. Masters Thesis. Ever.

You've been a huge help - really

Nah, in 5-10 years you'll plug your PC directly into the back of your skull, eliminating all those extra expensive peripherals like sound cards and graphics chips. It'll give a whole new meaning to "virtual reality", and change the face of PC gaming (not to mention cyber-pr0n) as we know it.

I predict that it will all come down to a massless energy sphere. It will float on top of your plasma tv, and it will do everything, even provide energy. Email wouldn't be needed, however, since it will have the ability to project a hologram on the living room floor.

I'm a long time gamer who's begun to put together proposals for a master's thesis and one of the topics I'm considering is a study of the delivery methods of electronic entertainment content.

I read Blues News daily and can't think of a more knowledgable bunch of folks to pose a few questions to as a way of focusing my research topic. So -- here goes:

Do you think that PC gaming will exist in 5 years? For that matter will the home PC exist then or will we all have some variation of the X-Box that we'll use to check our e-mail, surf the web and pay bills on? Does playing a game on the PC offer any added benefits that can't be fullfilled by a console experience?

Any thoughts you could offer would be greatly appreciated