By Christopher Correa, Contributor

Movies are so 20th century. At least that’s what Internet entrepreneur Tobias Batton posits. A serial entrepreneur designing apps and games for the last seven years, Batton believes that video games–on both home console (like XBox and Playstation) as well as mobile platforms–are already the most powerful entertainment medium and show no signs of relinquishing the mantel. In his keynote presentation presented at mediabistro’s Social Gaming Summit last November, Batton laid out his theory on what he believes is a global sea change in public consumption of information and recreation. Before we go too far down the rabbit hole (he invites the likes of no less estimable cultural anthropologists than Abraham Maslow, Ivan Pavlov, Joseph Campbell and Stanford neuroscience professor Robert Sapolsky), a bit about Tobias Batton.

From: http://www.forbes.com/sites/christophercorrea/2013/04/11/why-video-games-are-addictive-and-bigger-than-movies-will-ever-be/