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Hamlet on the Holodeck
• Who is Janet Murray?• Worked at IBM– Suits and hackers– Musical printer
• Victorian scholar at MIT– Novel as ultimate form– Not into deconstruction– Into constructionist educational software
Hackers and Bards
• Complementary skills• “The spirit of the hacker is one of the great
creative wellsprings of our time, causing the inanimate circuits to sing with ever more individualized and quirky voices”
• “The spirit of the bard is eternal and irreplaceable, telling us what we are doing here and what we mean to one another.”
The Holodeck
• Janeway’s Holonovel– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA2kXgv4Ai4
• A generally positive vision of the future of interactive narrative– How does it compare to today’s games?
• Stories were not always positive– As a replacement for the real world– Holoaddiction
Reaction to New Media
• Early reaction is generally negative– Fear of change
• Brave New World– Talkies, Movies, and Feelies
• Fahrenheit 451– Vision of reality tv?– “The televisors are evil because they create ‘an environment
as real as the world.’”– “Books are … better … their meager sensory input makes their
illusions easier to resist.”• McLuhan’s hot and cold
Reaction to New Media
• TekWar– Vision of virtual reality– “the source of addiction, destitution, bad trips,
overdose deaths, and gangster violence.”• Computer Games– A film critic complained that his sons quit reading
to play video games that “offer a kind of narrative, but one that yields without resistance to the child's desire for instant gratification.”
Utopian and Distopian Visions
• Bridging the Hopes and Fears– “enticing but not enslaving”– “Neither vision of the future refutes the other.”
• “Eventually all successful storytelling technologies become “transparent”: we lose consciousness of the medium and see neither print nor film but only the power of the story itself.”
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO7wE8snf2E
Computer as Meta-Medium
• Computers enable many existing forms of communication– Existing representations being digitized
• Typical of a new medium– Incunabula recorded prose and poetry of oral
storytelling– Movies were recordings of plays
• “At the incunabula phase of narrative computer”
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