On Video Games

And what if, for the first time in the history of art, it was possible to become the art. Not just actively appreciate but to meld your very conciseness with the aesthetic experience before you. What if you could shoulder the burdens of a great leader or a violent anti-hero. To see with your own eyes the options before you and react.

What would happen to other art?

Is it possible for painting and sculpture to become obsolete? Replacing marble for pixels. And paint for polygons. What about story telling? Why should I pay six dollars to sit in a cramped, smokeless theater or shift awkwardly reading a book when I can by pass all these problems comfortably and simulate the adrenaline rush of normally associated with human interaction.

And can this be extrapolated?

I see no reason it can't.