Posts Tagged "On Technology"

• An Interface of Health and Technology

  On Technology

    Technology maintains a neutral stance regardless of an observer’s vantage point. This is hardly surprising as we would expect this of any tool. A hammer can be used to hang a picture or hurt a thumb. There is something about approaching anything new that makes one wary. The slow pace of technological adoption by [...]

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• MMOs and Ownership

  On Technology

    Richard Bartle is a major name in game design. He is likely best known for having created Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs) – a precursor to the Massively multiplayer worlds that we see nowadays. He also has an excellent paper where he, I believe, pioneered the psychological investigation of gamers by characterizing and describing four basic [...]

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• Man, Music, and Technology

  On Mind

  (… somewhere in my mind is a quote whose origins I can’t quite seem to find … something about music reflecting the state of its society … if only I had written it down … but, …) Is technology empowering or destroying music? Have we lost something on the ride into this electronic world? Or [...]

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• Children’s exposure to technology

  On Technology

  Ars Technica reports a trend of kids being exposed to technology at ever younger ages. So, how young is too young? The focus of the article points out this trend which may alarm some parents and members of society. Meanwhile, kids are learning the technology quickly without giving it a second thought. It was once [...]

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• Playing music – from Real World to Virtual.

  On Music

    On occasion, I’ve been asked what gear I use. So, I thought others may be interested as well. I started off the post listing out the equipment. Then I realized I could use it to just draw the path between me performing and the audience in Second Life. So, first there’s me performing. < [...]

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