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Undo It Yourself (U.i.Y.)

By alex | Published: 3/15/2013

There is a TV show called (in the US) Junkyard Wars. The premise of the show is simple enough: two teams meet in a junkyard and are assigned to build something: a trebuchet, a crane, or some other device. I think we can assume that the collection of stuff is, let us say, “semi-random.” I [...]

Posted in Policy & Politics, Teaching, Technology | Also tagged Chicago, Chris Hoadley, Computing, Designer, Ethan Zuckerman, Facebook, Hacker, hacking, Hip hop, Ingrid Erickson, Lego, media literacies, physical infrastructure, Rafi Santo, Temporary Autonomous Government, twitter, United States | Leave a comment

The Coming Gaming Machine, 1975-1985

By alex | Published: 7/13/2012

Was going through old backups in the hope of finding some stuff I’ve lost and I ran into this, a draft I was working on around the turn of the millennium. Never went anywhere, and was never published. I was just pressing delete, when I realized it might actually be of interest to someone. It [...]

Posted in Research | Also tagged A. Richard Immel, Andrew Pollack, Arcade games, Atari, BASIC, Broderbund, Business Partnership, communication device, computer software, computer technology, Computing, console systems, Creative Computing, Donald A. Thomas, Douglas Carlston, Douglas Englebart, Douglas G. Carlston, eBay, educational products, Electronic Games, game designer, Gaming computer, Home computer, home computing, home-based laserdisc systems, Information Society, Jack M. Nilles, Ken Uston, large-scale on-line gaming, large-scale scientific computing, laserdisc technology, Lucasfilm, machinery, Magnavox, Martin Campbell-Kelly, McGraw-Hill, media appliances, Microsoft, MIT, Mitchell C. Lynch, Movie Release, multiplayer on-line role playing, Multiplayer video game, networked computing, New York, New York Times, Nolan Bushnell, Odyssey, Odyssey system, Otto Friedrich, PDA, persistent on-line worlds, Personal computer game, personal computing, Playstation 2, Pong, portable gaming technologies, Prentice-Hall, Ralph Baer, Ralph Lombreglia, RAM, Seattle, Sim City, single gaming author, software industry, Stanford, Steve Russel, telephone distribution, telephone networks, television gaming devices, The Last Starfighter, Toronto Star, Tron, United States, University of California at Irvine, Video game, Video game conversion, Wadsworth Publishing, Wall Street Journal, WarGames, Warner Communications, Washington Post, William Aspray, William Higinbotham, Xerox | 2 Comments

iPad for $250

By alex | Published: 1/5/2011

It is the season for resolutions and predictions. Instead I offer questions and metrics. Let’s start with the questions. What do you do with a $250 iPad. Just before Christmas, Amazon cut its basic Kindle to under $100, but I don’t see the first generation being offered by Apple for $250 any time soon. I [...]

Posted in Technology | Also tagged Amazon, Apple, Business, Christmas, Computing, Delta terminal, eBay, hacking, hardware, HTML, Interactive kiosk, ipad, iPads, Kindle, Linux, locative, mobile, net top devices, public telephone, Question, similar devices, Technology_Internet | 3 Comments

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