Digital Media Revisited : Theoretical and Conceptual Innovations in Digital Domains

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Summary: Here are some pointers to the future.
Review: The computer graphics world of today's movies has come a long way from the ubiquitous teapots of years past. The text only Adventure games are a long way from the Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs) of today. And the bridge of a modern ship is now a multi-media experience with radar, maps, engine controls, steering system, GPS and more are combined into displays and alarms to tell people to look at the displays.

These digital domains are what the authors call 'first encounters.' We see them; we understand them (more or less). But these are just the beginnings, and in this book twenty distinguished thinkers from Georgia Tech and Xerox PARC, Singapore and Oslo describe their thoughts on where the new innovations in digital domains are going.

This is a book for anyone interested in the digital future, perhaps as a computer scientist, perhaps as a movie maker or instrumenation designer, perhaps as an investor looking for tomorrows big play.