Do you do DDR?

September 24, 2007


I have to say I was a bit surprised at the number of people who raised their hand when Tom Crawford asked if anyone had played Dance Dance Revolution (DDR). I mean, the average age of the attendees at Tom’s keynote must’ve been 45! I did raise my hand though…and I’m 44. But some people, I just couldn’t picture dancing.

Conversations among attendees about the biggest technology disruptions in the past 100 years included the computer chip, the Internet (of course), plumbing, electricity, TV, telephone, railroad….and as far as learning technology in the last five years, Google was the top ranked. In the bigger scheme of things, plumbing is right up there ; )

For me, Tom’s big message wasn’t about technology…it was about people. It’s the peeps not the technology. Great keynote. Very inspirational. I look forward to his session tomorrow. Earlier tonight, at the poolside reception here at the conference, he shared some interesting demographic information on gamers. The guy is passionate about technology, brilliant and a total geek to boot. He blogged about the conference here. Too cool. And this video is too cool…supplied in the event you don’t know what DDR is.


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  • http://karynromeis.blogspot.com/ Karyn Romeis

    I used to have my own dance mat at home as a way of keeping fit. It plugged into the kids’ PS2. I loved it, but it broke – probably from overuse – they’re not as tough as the arcade version :-(

    A couple of years ago, our church had one at a fundraising event. You paid £1, had a couple of goes and the winner got a CD. The girl running it was astonished when I won, since most of the competitors were teenagers and I am your age!

    Score one for the middle-aged mamas!

  • http://karynromeis.blogspot.com Karyn Romeis

    I used to have my own dance mat at home as a way of keeping fit. It plugged into the kids’ PS2. I loved it, but it broke – probably from overuse – they’re not as tough as the arcade version :-(

    A couple of years ago, our church had one at a fundraising event. You paid £1, had a couple of goes and the winner got a CD. The girl running it was astonished when I won, since most of the competitors were teenagers and I am your age!

    Score one for the middle-aged mamas!

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