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levels of meaning

actionary level -- action and movements
sensory/iconic level -- images and impressions
symbolic level -- language and mathematics

cultural convergence

The cultural convergence of art, science, and technology provides ample opportunity for artists to challenge the very notion of how art is produced and to call into question its subject matter and its function in society.

standardization and uniformity

Telematic media were incorporated very quickly in the globalization strategies of transnational corporations and their political administrators and they became increasingly dependent on existing power structures.
At the other end of the scale, there were individuals, or comparatively small groups, who projected great hopes onto these networks as a testing ground for cultural, artistic and political models that would give greater prominence and weight to divergence and plurality.

Scientific American (november 2000)

The barriers between TV, movies, music, videogames and the Internet are crumbling.

Audiences are fetting new creative options.

Here is what entertainment could become if the technological and legal hurdles can be cleared ...

Underlying the importance of entertainment in the era of digital convergence is the premisse governing an entertainment economy, which may be stated as

there is no business without show business

evolution of digital entertainment

1953: Winky Dink (CBS) -- interactive television, drawing exercise

1972: Pong (Atari) -- ping-pong on computer screen

1977: Adventure -- text-based interactive fiction

1983: Dragon's Liar -- laser-disc technology 3D game

1989: SimCity -- interactive simulation game

1989: Back to the Future -- the Ride

1993: Doom -- 3D action game

1995: The Spot -- interactive web-based soap opera (Webisodic)

1999: IMAX3D -- back to Atlantis (Las Vegas)

2000: Big Brother -- TV + around the clock Web watch + voting

2001: FE Sites -- fun enhanced web sites

experience is fundamental to human life

The desire to share experiences will be the motivating factor in the development of exciting multimedia technology in the foreseeable future.

communication technology

oral -- communicate symbolic experiences

writing -- record symbolic experiences

paper -- portability

print -- mass distribution

telegraph -- remote narrow communication

telephone -- remote analog communication

radio -- analog broadcasting of sound

television -- analog A/V broadcasting

recording media -- analog recording

digital processing -- machine enhancement

internet -- multimedia communication

the medium was the message when only one medium could be used to communicate messages.

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VR for pain relief image delivery system

... cyberspace is a construct in terms of an electronic system.

cyberspace

television, video cassettes, video tape-recorder/players, video games, and personal computers all form an encompassing electronic system whose various forms interface to constitute an alternative and absolute world that uniquely incorporates the spectator/user in a spatially decentered, weakly temporalized and quasi-disembodied state.

virtual reality

virtual reality (is) when and where the computer disappears and you become the 'ghost in the machine' ...

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