Will Wright @ SXSW
Holy moly, I just found one post on the internet that could fuel the journals of every student in the New Media class for the rest of the semester. An excerpt from the tail end:
You can take any human technology and take it as a new extension of our body. Telescopes extend our eyes, cars our legs, telephones our voice. Computers do a lot of these things but the most important thing is that they extend our imagination.
This is a very powerful thing, an amplifier for imagination.
We use computers for entertainment, education, social spaces. How is this going to impact the world going forward? Every now and then the world goes through a huge paradigm shift… sometimes by social shifts, sometimes only once or twice in a lifetime. Some are grass roots, some are top down, and some take us by surprise.
We have a lot more heading our way. More political and social issues. Obviously environmental issues. Some people are issuing warnings.
But when we look at games specifically and entertainment in general, games often have this perception of mindless toys, but they can be much more than that. They can help us develop systematic thinking. They can help us build accurate models of the world around us; and hopefully these things will help us change the world just a little bit for the better.
All I can do is encourage you to go read it. I have been remiss in updating this blog, I know, but I could pull material from that keynote and riff off it for a long time. I just might.
I tried the new 
I don’t even know if it’s necessary to say more.
try something simpler for my New Media class blog. No doubt that Blogger was easier to set up on my existing domain than another WordPress blog would have been (slightly), I’m already wishing I’d gone for something slicker.