Why simulate when you can record reality?

Some thoughts that came to mind when I saw a piece in the NY Times about the inclusion of YouTube in the presidential political cycle...

YouTube Passes Debates to a New Generation

Life and reality seem to create and now, record, and to some extent, but without a lot of rigorous structure for consistency and validation, analyze itself - because people have so many technologies at their fingertips, social examples, and outlets for their interaction and expression - why is it that we need to have second lives, made up worlds - it seems I could become the next go-getter entrepreneur and start to amass a posse of producers of high quality "real" information, commentary, and reference (for education as well as entertainment) by focusing on collecting and organizing and tweaking / fine-tuning content that is produced en masse everyday - the stuff that CNN and other big names are trying to get a grip on - because it captures so much of the attention of the people who aren't part of the big bulge under the bell curve, those people and events and niche thought spaces that Daniel Pink says are the big places to be around.

But wait, then I've become ABC or PBS or Disney... Instructional Television and Scholastic YouTube (aka ITSY) present the following bit (get it? ItsyBit... sounds like a dog snack).

Anyways, there's room for all, but I think there might be a big pool of people who fall into the category of those who disdain "school", but love reality tv and celebrity mags and even far-out competitors that show alien Jesus babies... who might benefit from a simulation or game based on collected and tweaked real life bits...

Just some thoughts.

tc