John Smedley, one of the original creators of "EverQuest" and the president of Sony Online since 2000, has watched the rapid changes in the space his company once owned, and he believes it's time for a change.

In his keynote speech at an online game conference in Seattle recently, Smedley spoke of the need to reinvent the MMO — and he says the two new games his company is developing, "The Agency" and "Free Realms", will do just that.

Read the entire article and Smed's interview on MSNBC's Technology & Science.