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The Playful World: How Technology is Transforming Our Imagination

Pesce, Mark

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The Playful World: How Technology is Transforming Our Imagination

As you read 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. Are you ready for it? Your kids are.

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Title of ebook: The Playful World: How Technology is Transforming Our Imagination
ISBN: 9780345446909
Publisher: Ballantine
Internet download file size: 330 kb
Released online for download: 01-01-2001
Author of eBook: Pesce, Mark

The Playful World

How Technology Is Transforming Our Imagination
A child born on the first day of the new Millennium will live an entire
lifetime in a world undreamt of just a generation ago. As much as we
might have tried to speculate upon the shape of things to come, the
twenty-first century arrives just as unformed as a newborn.

When a child enters the world, it knows nearly nothing of the universe
beyond itself. With mouth, then eyes, and finally, hands, it reaches out
to discover the character of the surrounding world. Over the course of
time, that child will discover its Mother - the source of life - and,
sometime later, its Father. But in the first days after birth, the child
will be presented with rattles, mobiles, mirrors and noisy stuffed
animals that will become its constant companions. Our children, in
nearly every imaginable situation, are accompanied by toys.

It has been this way for a very long time. We can trace the prehistoric
sharpened stick - undoubtedly the first tool - to the sticks children
still love to play with today. Over the 5500 years of recorded history,
forward from Sumer and E ... read full excerpt from The Playful World: How Technology is Transforming Our Imagination ebook