Old Is The New New

I like talking about “history at play” or “playful historical thinking” more than “history games” or “serious games” because of some of the baggage that comes with the word “game.” I know that “game” is a capacious label, but more and more today the word describes a commercial product, a highly structured and packaged experience. [...]

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…was a ton of fun, but man, making stuff in the real world is hard! We didn’t make a killer robot after all; we made a flower that only blooms in artificial light.

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Off to Bill Turkel and Edward Jones-Imhotep’s “Hacking as a Way of Knowing” Workshop, May 1-3 2009.

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A party dress with a hemline that automatically rises and drops along with the stock market. My man Bill discusses.

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