Valerie Carlson introduces herself as an ECD at EVB and discusses how in the 1980s and 2000s she envisioned the future of gaming and technology being more social and interactive. She believes that for things to be truly novel and not wear off their novelty, they need multiplayer functionality and interaction between people. Her strategic angle is that everything is now social and the future is about returning to ideas of the future being more connected like in Back to the Future, with an emphasis on multiplayer experiences.