Virtuality and reality 'to merge'

Speaking at the Games Development Conference in San Francisco, leading inventor Ray Kurzweil predicted that the virtual and real worlds will merge and that 'virtual' is a misnomer.

"In virtual worlds we do real romance, real learning, real business. Virtual reality is real reality." he said. "Games are the cutting edge of what is happening - we are going to spend more of our time in virtual reality environments."

"Fully emergent games is really where we want to go. We will do most of our learning through these massively parallel interactions. Play is how we principally learn and principally create."

Do you agree? Read the BBC's summary of his talk here.