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The playful world : how technology is transforming our imagination
- Title
- The playful world : how technology is transforming our imagination / Mark Pesce.
- Author
- Pesce, Mark.
- Publication
- New York : Ballantine Books, 2000.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 287 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "In this book, Mark Pesce explores how a new kind of knowing and a new way of creating are transforming the culture of our time." "Pesce takes us inside the world's cutting-edge research facilities where the distinction between bits and atoms is rapidly dissolving. We meet the creators of LEGO Mindstorms, a snap-together plastic device that intelligently controls motors and processes data from sensors. We watch technological geniuses like Marvin Minsky and Eric Drexler turn the theoretical breakthroughs of Nobel laureate Richard Feynman into "nanites"--Tiny ultra-high-speed computers that replicate intelligent life. We observe the launch of the amazing and much-anticipated Sony Playstation 2, a platform that will allow us to bring synthetic worlds into the home - and create a gateway to the living planet."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Computer games
- Video games.
- Note
- Includes index.
- "A Ballantine Book"--T.p. verso.
- ISBN
- 0345439430
- 9780345439437
- LCCN
- 00106984
- OCLC
- ocm45132987
- 45132987
- SCSB-1136577
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library