This TED Talk features entrepreneur and coder Herman Nerula, recorded live at TED 2019.

Hello, my name is Herman, and I've always been struck by how the most important, impactful tsunami-like changes to our culture and our society always come from

those things that we least think are going to have that impact. I mean, as a computer scientist,

I remember when Facebook was just image sharing in dorm rooms, and depending upon who you ask,

it's now involved in toppling elections. I remember when cryptocurrency or automated trading were sort of ideas by a few renegades

in the financial institutions in the world for automated trading or online for cryptocurrency.

And they're now coming to quickly shape the way that we operate.

And I think each of you can recall that moment where one of these ideas felt like some ignorable

derisive thing, and suddenly, oh, crap, the price of Bitcoin is what it is.

Or, oh, crap.

Guess who's been elected?

The reality is that, you know, from my perspective, I think that we're about to encounter

that again.

And I think one of the biggest, most impactful changes to the way we live our lives, to think that we're about to encounter that again. And I think one of the biggest,

most impactful changes to the way we live our lives, to the ways we're educated, probably even

to how we end up making an income, is about to come not from AI, not from space travel or biotech.

These are all very important future inventions. But in the next five years, I think it's going to come

from video games.

So that's a bold claim, okay? I see some skeptical faces in the audience.

But if we take a moment to try to look at what video games are already becoming in our lives today and what just a little bit of technological advancement is about to create.

It starts to become more of an inevitability,

and I think the possibilities are quite electrified.

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