Ephective Ephemera
Joi Ito posted this week his contribution on neoteny to Seth Godin’s free new e-book What Matters Now:
The future of the planet is becoming less about being efficient, producing more stuff and protecting our turf and more about working together, embracing change and being creative. [...] It’s time we listen to children and allow neoteny to guide us beyond the rigid frameworks and dogma created by adults.
Greg Smith over at Vague Terrain has a terrific writeup on a new installation at the Mediateca Expandida de LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, entitled PLAYLIST:
The core of PLAYLIST will be the exploration of the “8bit movement”, spread out from the manipulation of obsolete game technologies in order to create new instruments to [...]
If you can’t ride two horses at once, you ought not be in the circus. – James Maxton, former Labour Party MP
Mike Delosreyes over at Big Spaceship poses a great question this week on gaming:
Why don’t more games require us to multitask?
I imagine the gamers who like taking care of their Sims’ needs in The [...]