Intro Interactive – ICM501a

The future is now. No, really.

Full lecture: mp3

Faster: mp3

By section:

1. The Future: mp3
2. Science Fiction mp3
3. Science Fact mp3
4. Locative & Ubiquitous mp3
5. Wearables & Implantables mp3
6. Overcoming the Keyboard mp3
7. Our Robot Masters mp3
8. The Fab Life mp3
9. Keeping an Eye Out mp3

Referenced in the lecture / more information:

• Wikipedia: Delphi method
• Video conferencing / phone timeline
• Guardian article on micro-nuclear reactors, and another from the CSM
• Wearable computing
• Humanity+
• Wikipedia, Moore’s Law
• KurzweilAI.net
• Wikipedia, ICD
• Tooth implanted headset (not real, at least not yet)
• Solo, and insulin nanopump
• Ortho Evra & Implanon
• VeriChip, RFID Hacking, and California’s ban on required chipping
• NY Times, Burst of technology helps blind to see
• Frogpad & Twiddler
• Wikipedia, BCI (= BMI)
• Video of Boston Dynamics’ Big Dog tests
• Wikipedia, Three Laws
• The Asimo’s gonna get you
• Lulu & Shapeways
• Fab Lab
• The 501 theme is “Los Alamos Traffic,” by flopsy

Faster: mp3

By section:

1. Social Architecture: mp3
2. Moses & Me: mp3
3. Pattern Languages: mp3
4. Object Oriented: mp3
5. Time Taking: mp3
6. Rule Breaking: mp3
7. By Next Week: mp3
8. The Notebook: mp3

Referenced in the lecture / more information:

• Hughes, Human-Built World
• Wikipedia: Robert Moses
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities
• Wikipedia: Pattern Languages
• Designing Interfaces
• The 501 theme is “Los Alamos Traffic,” by flopsy

This lecture attempts to situate gaming into the larger context of interactive communication.

Full lecture: mp3

Full lecture (faster): mp3

By section:

1. Just a game: mp3
2. homo ludens: mp3
3. Game Theory: mp3
4. Spacewar! mp3
5. Getting Game: mp3
6. Wargames: mp3
7. Rhetoric of Gaming: mp3

Referenced in the lecture / more information:

• “Rejuvenile Redux,” NPR Talk of the Nation, 1-28-2008
• Stuart Brown, Hungry polar bear
• The Matrix (1999)
• Rob Sachs, My Fellow Americans: Chris Metzen, WarCraft Storyteller
• Wargames (1983)
• The 501 theme is “Los Alamos Traffic,” by flopsy.