Interactive Storytelling

I read an interview with game designer Chris Crawford in Dr. Dobb's about the future of computer games and interactive storytelling. With his new company StoryTron, he is betting that interactive storytelling will be used in training and education, as a social interaction simulator. There are three programs: SWAT (StoryWorld Authoring Tool), which is a visual development environment to create a storyworld, the Storyworld Engine, and the Storyteller, which is used to play. It's still in beta.