Will Wright on the Future of Gaming
I'm going to start off-topic here, but did you know that you can buy magazine subscriptions on Ebay? And if you're looking for a mass-market magazine (The New Yorker, Cosmo, Spin, whatever), they're really, really cheap.
Anyway, I bought a year subscription to Wired for $3, and it ain't much of a magazine. Once in a while there's something interesting, but not too often. That said, though, there's a fascinating piece by Will Wright, the designer of SimCity, the Sims and many other games, about the future of gaming.
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Anyway, I bought a year subscription to Wired for $3, and it ain't much of a magazine. Once in a while there's something interesting, but not too often. That said, though, there's a fascinating piece by Will Wright, the designer of SimCity, the Sims and many other games, about the future of gaming.
Great stuff.Games are evolving to entertain, educate, and engage us individually. These personalized games will reflect who we are and what we enjoy, much as our choice of cooks and music does now. They will allow us to express ourselves, meet others, and create things that we can only dimly imagine. They will enable us to share and combine these creations, to build vast playgrounds. And more than ever, games will be a visible, external amplification of the human imagination.
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posted by Jesse Thorn at Thursday, March 30, 2006
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That's too bad. I got a cheap subscription to Wired also, but I absolutely love it. More for the long articles and more in depth stuff. The guy inventing the pain pumps in iraq (the Firefox issue), and the quadrapelegic guy who could control a cursor with his brain were among my favourites. Also the article on the DARPA challenge and the plucky poor immigrant kids who won the national robotics challenge...yeah I could go on and on. But hey "diff'rent strokes for...um...uh....You take the good you take the bad you take them both and there you have..."
I have to agree. It seems like Wired used to be an essential magazine, but somewhere along the way it started disappearing up its own ass.
"They will allow us to...and create things that we can only dimly imagine."
I wish he'd elaborate on this last part, because I'm having a hard time picturing these things. They're very dim in my mind.
crap...i just renewed my new yorker subscription
News you can use, right?
I wasn't going to renew my New Yorker subscription, because that ish is EXPENSIVE, but I got a year for $12 on ebay.
Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of mass-market magazines that really interest me. I mean, am I really going to read GQ?
Actually, I've never used eBay; all the subscriptions I have I got when I bought something and got the magazine for free. Then I forget about it until the magazine shows up and I'm like, "Why am I getting Details?" These days the internet just serves up too much information too fast to make print magazines all that interesting. The best stuff always happens on the fringes anyway, and now we can leapfrog the time it takes news to trickle down to the mainstream sources.
That Will Wright really is fascinating BTW.
Meanwhile, over here in the Old World, a one-year transatlantic subscription for New Yorker or Wired or any other monthly magazine will set you back... like $100. Not kidding. Seeing all of these subscription offers - only valid if you live in America! - is killing me.
But Martin, you can get, you know, foreign magazines, right? You're not saying that all magazine subscriptions in Europe cost $100 are you?
And re: Wired, I used to get it when it very very first came out... a friend that worked in the creative side of the tech industry gave it to me. It was really neat then, but it's kind of lost it's way.
Oh, I can get them alright, copies are sold everywhere and there's nothing stopping me from getting a subscription. It's just that US mags are amazingly expensive here compared to what they go for in America. A copy of New Yorker, for example, is about $12. I can't keep up with that.
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