The Playful World: How Technology Is Transforming Our Imagination - Rilegato

Pesce, Mark

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ISBN 10: 0345439430 ISBN 13: 9780345439437

Casa editrice: Ballantine Books, 2000

Riassunto

A trenchant analysis of the new "gaming" technology introduces readers to the interactive toys that will soon influence an entire generation of young users.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Mark Pesce is the Chair of the Interactive Media Program at the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television. A contributor to Wired, Feed, and Salon, he is the creator of the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) which distributes 3-dimensional scenes over the Web.

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these words, the architects of the new virtual reality are inventing a world you never imagined: call it the playful world. It's a world of interactive Web-based toys that instantly collapse the gulf between wish and existence, space and time, animate and inanimate. It's a world where the entire fabric of the material world becomes manipulable, programmable, mutable. Situated at the crossroads of high technology and popular culture, the playful world is taking shape at the speed of electronic creativity.<br><br>Are you ready for it? Your kids are.<br><br>In this spellbinding new book, Mark Pesce, one of the pioneers in the ongoing technological revolution, explores how a new kind of knowing and a new way of creating are transforming the culture of our time. It started, bizarrely enough, with Furbys, the first toys that had the "will" to grow and interact intelligently with their environment. As Pesce argues, Furbys, for all their cloying cuteness, were a vital sign of a new human

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Ballantine Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0345439430
• ISBN 13: 9780345439437
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 287
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile