Entertainment and Multimedia on the Internet
The Gist.
wow. what can i say. my favorite topic of the module. in the world full of electronics, it seems that the world of the internet knows that in each human there is a child within them. the plethora of games and other entertainment is almost infinite online. as such, the class sstes out on a conquest to find out more about internet gaming and entertainment.
So What Else.
online gaming is too big to ignore. generating billions of dollars yearly, gaming companies are gradually directing its resource into the virtual world. i meant creating a virtual world. and generating real cash from it. online gaming, downloadable music and animation works are the cash cows of today. becoming bored is virtually a thing of the past. now we have the iPhone, iMac, iRack (pun to america's pronounciation of Iraq) and its ever-growing number of applications (mostly gaming). we've facebook games, we even have advertisments that lets you play a mini game. of course, games can't do without their developers. animation companies like PIXAR and SquareEnix help produce our Nemos and Final Fantasys. wheareas itunes are the powerhouses in terms of storage, platform, medium, and downloads music-wise. throw away the CDs and DVDs, we just need a hard disk drive to store our downloaded stuff (not porn). do away with radio and donate it to the museum, now we have podcasts!
Why Should We Care?
we should care because there's a high chance that we'll be working in the "infotainment" industry (the rest just work at the IRs). everyone, from young to the elderly, play games. if we transmute the pick-up-sticks and chinese chess into the virtual world, soon we would have the entire world connected like how the Avatars do with their pigtails. games bring people together. but of course, some may argue that such online games may bring about addiction, and an over reliance to technology. barring some A.I. takeover ala the Matrix, we should know when to unhook such people when gaming becomes actual life and death.
"which will you take, the red, or blue pill?"
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