Mark Pesce
Author of The Playful World: How Technology Is Transforming Our Imagination
About the Author
Mark Pesce co-invented the technology for 3D on the Web, founded postgraduate programs at USC and AFTRS, is a multiple-award-winning columnist for The Register and IEEE Spectrum, hosts the award-winning The Next Billion Seconds podcast, and is a professional futurist and public speaker.
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You Are Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes, and Cultural Myths (2001) — Contributor, some editions — 693 copies
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Out of date now, and things you mostly already probably know if you were around in the late 80's into the 90's VR scene
Out of date now, and things you mostly already probably know if you were around in the late 80's into the 90's VR scene
The boundaries between physical and virtual are increasingly blurred, which is a phenomenon open to multiple interpretations. Pesce chooses to concentrate on play and toys, based on the toy designs made possible by technological innovations but drawing out more general threads towards the intersection of artificial intelligence and ubiquitous computing.
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The author aluded to how this technology is impacting our kids and their world view (ie, why should they memorize something when the web is available to look it up at any time from their cell phones). I would have enjoyed him discussing this more, but it remained a footnote in what was otherwise a drawn out history lesson on a few select technologies. Those technologies did fill us with awe at one time, but today are a commonplace, and so the book has lost much of the punch it may have had when it was first published.… (more)