<p>Laptop screens and PC monitors used to be passive objects, gently filling our eyeballs with Word docs, Hotmail junk and the wonders of Solitaire.</p><p>However, these days it feels more and more that they are vicious magnets, generating their own gravity and sucking more and more of our lives into their world.</p><p>As much as I wish this meant Tron-like light-cycle races and glowing frisbees that always come back, it's really more of a comment on just how reliant we've become upon the digital world, almost entirely forgetting that there was a time when we did most things quite successfully in the physical world.</p><p>I even seem to remember once playing just one Scrabble game at a time while actually sitting in the same room as my opponents Crazy times.</p><p><a href="http://www.intergameonline.com/blog/8191/try-the-direct-approach">Keep reading...</a></p>