HL2, Steam, and the Future

I love Valve Software, I always have. They aren't a one-hit wonder, they are a group of incredibly talented people that will take video games in directions we won't know we wanted until we're given it. Not everything they do is perfect (steam, that high speed modem initiative that went nowhere...) but even their "failures" have some very intelligent thought behind them, so grand idea that we all wish would work. For example, check out this feature for Half-Life 2 and Steam:

"If you buy Half-Life 2 in a store, it will ask you to create a login id and a password. That way if you go to a friend's house, you can play Half-Life 2 there, even if you don't have your CD/DVD with you."