Anybody else see this story on Wi-Fi wireless touch-sensitive screens that are meant to be unveiled at Comdex? They’re from Microsoft. While the Tablet PCs are pretty cool, the idea of a touch-sensitive detachable screen that I can carry around in my house, without the bulk of the keyboard, hard drive or anything else, that’s connected to my main box? To surf the net from anywhere and take notes? This rules. And, goddamn it, it should have come from Apple. They built Inkwell into Mac OS X, and then did nothing with it! Steve, you’d better come up with something sparkly at MacWorld New York, or else you’re going to have a lot of pissed off disciples. It makes it difficult to hold your head up high when your beloved cutting-edge Porsche of a computer company is lagging behind Yugo.
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I'm the Director of the Games and Simulation program at Miami University in Ohio, where I am also an Assistant Professor in the College of Creative Arts' Emerging Technology in Business and Design department. I'm also the director of Miami's Worldbuilding and Narrative Design Research Laboratory (WNDRLab). I have a Master's in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and a PhD in Media Arts and Practices from the University of Southern California.
In past lives I've been the lead Narrative Producer for Microsoft Studios and cofounder of its Narrative Design team, working on projects like Hololens, Quantum Break and new IP incubation; in a "future of media" think tank for Microsoft's CXO/CTO and its Chief Software Architect; the Creative Director for the University of Southern California's World Building Media Lab and the Technical Director, Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab; a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier College and director of its Whittier Other Worlds Laboratory (WOWLab); the Communications Director and a researcher for the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab; a founding member of the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT (now The Futures of Entertainment); a magazine editor; and a award-winning short film producer. more »
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