Of course definitions don't demonstrate tone. Feel free to insert you own [irony] tags there...

I'd be happier using Brain, if it would consider an open-source move. At the moment it represents the worst kind of vendor-lock in; I constantly feel tied down to the same hardware. And it has a complete monopoly on thinking. Plus, it's often unreliable - never updated - doesn't run Linux - and requires a reboot at least once a day. I hope for a community solution soon.

Except when you leave the Kindle on a train.

Replacing a newspaper is somewhat cheaper.

Like the other poster mentions there doesn't seem to be any objective metric here at all.

Bioshock sold well and was well received - but I wouldn't call it influential - you'd have to put System Shock on the list then surely.

But on the other hand I thought Ico was considered a commercial failure - despite being well received. It does count as an influence for the, much better selling, Shadow of the Colossus (so why isn't that on the list instead?).

It's not just the viewing experience. Computers almost always do something crazy to my attention span; I can read a book for a long time, but on a computer I'd struggle to concentrate. It happens with almost everything, watching movies, reading, writing on a computer - there's an overwhelming feeling that I could just be doing something else too. I'm just too weak willed and...

(1) That's because they recalled that a previous Democracy in Athens had killed one of mankind's greatest thinkers, Socrates, simply because they didn't like him.

That's a tad oversimplifying things. Plato stood strongly against democracy, and (although we don't know) it's not unreasonable to suggest that Socrates did too. Plato's Socrates may have been killed because "they didn`t like him", but the real Socrates? He may very well of been the man that brought tyranny to the city.