Word: virtualization
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...this moment of crisis, these series swing into place like a virtual social safety net. (All we're missing is a reality show on which 10 seniors compete to get their pensions restored.) And there are plenty of takers. In the Three Wishes pilot, the townspeople line up in droves to pitch their wishes to producers, like peasants petitioning a medieval lord. "The whole parking lot is filled with people humbling themselves asking for a hand," Grant says. "It's a beautiful thing...
...fill the hangar of an aircraft carrier. Chang's perceptive photos showed the ordinary, exhausted people buried beneath the heavy makeup, the costumes, the confetti, the expectations. In his newest book Double Happiness, Chang digs deeper, documenting the made-to-order marriages of Taiwan men and their Vietnamese brides?virtual strangers until the day they...
Game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, known for his cute characters, delivers the Holy Grail of cute: pick a puppy from the virtual pound and teach it endless tricks
...game company Namco, the Tokyo-based Takahashi didn't even own a PlayStation, that near ubiquitous Japanese device. He was an art-school graduate with a passion for sculpting bizarre objects like goat-shaped flowerpots. Living in a tactile world, he didn't see the point in a virtual one. Why jump into a pixilated version of a car when you've got a real one sitting in your driveway? But then the sticky-ball idea rolled, fully formed, into Takahashi's head. What would it feel like, he wondered, to push such an object? The game was a modest...
...good for us, all this time spent in virtual worlds? Or is it as pernicious as television, sucking us ever further from reality? The AOL survey suggests we're in denial about the extent of our habit. One in 10 gamers claims to be addicted; 1 in 4 admits to losing a night of sleep to play games; and another quarter has been engrossed enough to skip meals. Club Pogo and Sims players average 18 and 20 hours a week on their games. Like a Vegas casino, this is a world in which the sun never rises or sets...