Technology

Goals

  • Learn about the history of computer graphics
  • Examine the role of technology as force for cultural maintenance and change
  • Discuss the validity of art created with the aid of machines

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Every interesting topic for this week. Personally, I am typical PC gamer. I spend more than 15hours a week on games with friend or alone. According to the TED talk by Jane McGonigal, game can save the world by solving the real life puzzles in the imagine world.  You might think it won’t be true and I can’t promise you playing game can save the world either, but what I can tell you is game improve a person’s ability to manage and observe things. Why is that? Because there are so many puzzles in every games. Some are pretty simple but some are extremely hard.  I am also a Economics student. Economics teaches me the importance of allocating resource. How important is it? For example, every month you need to buy food under your budget level so you won’t run out of money and get hungry. And we can make it bigger, every month, the whole world is allocate their money to buy food supply at their budget level. If you don’t manage your money well, you might get hungry or if accident happened and you don’t have money for medical supply. So allocate resource is always a big issue in the world and everyone is solving it.  How does that connect to the game world? Because we, gamers, solve these problems in game. It  is like a simulation. Without the actual cost in real life, we might solve the real life problem in games.

There is a group of people called “Extra life”. People donate money to them by playing games together and “extra life” send these money to help kids. One of the big donation was on Twich.TV which is the world biggest video platform and community for gamers. On that day, so many people donated under the name of games. Now, Extra life has over millions donations overall to save the kids around America and Canada.  People know they are doing the right thing and they just need a right platform to help them. Game is just the right tool.

Reflection:

This week’s assignment is very interesting to me, mainly because I understand what is Jane Mcgonigal talking about since I am a gamer. Jane gives the point of gamers can save the world by solving puzzles in the games and the result is they can have the capability to solve real life problem too. In this assignment, I also use some Economics concept shows that gamers can allocate resource very well based on the different budget level. People usually like to play games instead of doing something serious. I think game just become a platform so that everyone can have an easy access to something else, like charity I talked about in the assignment.

Goal of the future:

It is still unclear how gamers can do for the world, mainly just because game is still a young “teenager”. We still need to observe it and try to analyze how games really work and what can game change people to. This is really important because technology is developing really fast. Even it’s not video games impact the world, it might be something else that is similar.

Bibliography:

Jones, B. J. (1990). Computer Graphics: Effects of Origins. LEONARDO: Digital Image – Digital Cinema Supplemental Issue, pp. 21-30.

Table of contents:

Artifact 1: Life of value.

Artifact 2: Is food an art?

Artifact 3:Observation of people.

Artifact 4: What is Art?

Artifact 5: Horror

Artifact 6:  Creative Spirituality

Artifact 7:  Technology

Artifact 8: Remixing Culture

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