Nolan Bushnell

CEO and founder, uWink Inc.

Most Important Technology of the Last 40 Years:

The Internet.

Most Important Technology for the Coming Decade:

The Internet. It permeates every facet of the knowledge-based economy. All the products we buy now cost 10 percent less than they used to, because we can go click, click and find all kinds of situations that were previously invisible.

Technology That has Evolved in a Surprising Way:

The video game.

"I really expected the video game to make a major impact on education, and it just hasn't. There's no reason why, in order to save the princess, the player can't be required to learn physics along the way, and maybe even a little history. Park a kid with severe ADD [attention deficit disorder] in front of a video game, and he does it for an hour and a half.

"I see major convergences in video games in the future. You'll have what I call Megahappenings, [where] you'll pay a buck and compete against a million other guys and girls, and at the end of the evening someone will win a million dollars. The Roman amphitheater of conflict and vast rewards will start to happen on the Internet."