The Beached Whale

That was a really interesting article, although I’ve done my best to steer clear of MMORPGs I always found the concept behind them to be interesting, so a look at an early MMORPG shows some interesting tendencies and discoveries; the authors’ observations ended up being somewhat philosophical as what they learned pertained to human nature.  There is an interesting division between what people will do in real life and what they’ll do online.

Here is my extract for my final project.  It’s not perfect but I tried to keep it relatively short and succinct, primarily because I wanted to avoid saying anything in describing it that might end up being inaccurate.

On December 9, 1968, computer scientist and inventor Douglas Engelbart presented a demonstration of emerging computer technology that would later become known as “The Mother of All Demos.” In this videotaped presentation, Engelbart exhibited the first public demonstration of a computer mouse, video conferencing, hypertext, and a system similar to email. Much of this technology would not come into popular use for decades afterward, yet Engelbart has received little recognition for his work in computers, which was very far ahead of his time and on some levels surpasses technology available today.

In this video presentatin created as part of Dr. Campbell’s “New Media Studies” course, I have set highlights from the narration of Engelbart’s original demonstration to new, original video and animation to bring an added level of meaning and draw parallels to modern advances in technology. In addition to the video presentation, there will be supplementary information on the work of Engelbart and others at the forefront of the New Media community.

~ by philip on April 6, 2009. Tagged: baylor_nms_s09