To produce great games, Viacom had to swallow smaller game companies like Virgin. However great the Viacom in-house game productions may sell, they have little to offer in terms of interactivity and gaming value. The interactive stuff our dreams are made of won't be made by megacorporations, but by companies that have been in this business for years and years. This may not be an accurate assessment. There exists the possibility that humans will become so necessary to the functioning of computers that we are no longer viewed as separate entities.
Mitochondria are the organelle in the cell that manage energy consumption.
It is believed that at one time, they were free-floating viruses that found it beneficial to join with a host. Mitochondria are now so integrated into intracellular life that without them we would die. We and they have co-evolved into something neither could be without the other. I suspect the same will be true of humans and computers. This is untrue.