It's sometime in the first half of 2005. The new Xbox has yet to release, but I've played the "Call of Duty 2" demo maybe twenty-five times at Best Buy. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith and Batman Begins are playing at the theatres. In the fall, at school, I will discover a brand new website called "YouTube". The family computer, a 2004 Compaq Presario SR1000, is running GunZ the Duel at ten frames-per-second; the fan sounds like an idling Harrier. I am almost, but not quite, twelve years old. I don't even know how good things are, and how bad things can even get...