March 17, 2005
Evolving forms of entertainment
Good article by Douglas Rushkoff on new directions for entertainment:
"How mobile can -- and should -- change the way we think about entertaining ourselves and each other...A playful mobile device need not entrap its owner within its own RAM. Rather, it can connect the owner with other people, the environment, or the temporal reality in new ways. Who is available? What is around me? What's going on right now? Instead of enter-taining, these devices might do better to inter-tain us -- that is, hold our connection to other people, places and things.The mobile intertainment device depends not on captivation, but on introduction, orientation, and interconnection. Although very few companies are conceiving of mobile fun in this way, the early interest in services from UPOC and Dodgeball prove that people are seeking a different sort of fun through their phones -- a fun that involves experiences with other subscribers rather than some company's content."
TheFeature :: That's Inter-tainment
Posted by sfisher at March 17, 2005 08:20 PM | TrackBackComments
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