Playing with the Past: Into the Future
Playing with the Past: Into the Future

Author: Erik Champion

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-01-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 3031109325

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Since the turn of this century (and even earlier), a plethora of projects have arisen to promise us bold new interactive adventures and immersive travel into the past with digital environments (using mixed, virtual or augmented reality, as well as computer games). In Playing with the Past: Into the Future Erik Champion surveys past attempts to communicate history and heritage through virtual environments and suggests new technology and creative ideas for more engaging and educational games and virtual learning environments. This second edition builds on and updates the first edition with new game discussions, surveys, design frameworks, and theories on how cultural heritage could be experienced in digital worlds, via museums, mobile phones, or the Metaverse. Recent games and learning environments are reviewed, with provocative discussion of new and emerging promises and challenges.

Playing with the Past: Into the Future
Playing with the Past: Into the Future

Author: Erik Champion

Publisher:

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783031109331

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Since the turn of this century (and even earlier), a plethora of projects have arisen to promise us bold new interactive adventures and immersive travel into the past with digital environments (using mixed, virtual or augmented reality, as well as computer games). In Playing with the Past: Into the Future Erik Champion surveys past attempts to communicate history and heritage through virtual environments and suggests new technology and creative ideas for more engaging and educational games and virtual learning environments. This second edition builds on and updates the first edition with new game discussions, surveys, design frameworks, and theories on how cultural heritage could be experienced in digital worlds, via museums, mobile phones, or the Metaverse. Recent games and learning environments are reviewed, with provocative discussion of new and emerging promises and challenges.

Playing the Future
Playing the Future

Author: Douglas Rushkoff

Publisher: Berkley

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781573227643

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"Makes dazzling links between chaos theory and Rodney King, snow boarding and William Gibson, race culture and Star Wars--the literary equivalent of U2's Zoo TV--Rushkoff is courageous enough to stand up against fashionable gloom by putting his faith in today's 'screenagers.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics

Author: Elabbas Benmamoun

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2007-12-13

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9027291306

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This volume offers a selection from the papers presented at the 2005 Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The papers cover a variety of topics in Arabic Linguistics, ranging from the lexicon, phonology, syntax and computational linguistics.

The Future of Play Theory
The Future of Play Theory

Author: Anthony D. Pellegrini

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1995-08-10

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 143841577X

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This multidimensional book looks at the current status of play theory across the disciplines, literally from anthropology to zoology. The authors examine play phenomena from four perspectives, Play as Progress; Play as Power, Play as Fantasy; and Play as Self. The volume is concluded with a challenge for future study by Brian Sutton-Smith. With the wealth of information gathered here, this book will serve as an invaluable reference tool, textbook, and source of inspiration for all those interested in the fascinating study of children's play.

Playing the Text, Performing the Future
Playing the Text, Performing the Future

Author: Felicitas Meifert-Menhard

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-10-14

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 3110272393

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This volume examines the structure of text-based Future Narratives in the widest sense, including choose-your-own-adventure books, forking-path novels, combinatorial literature, hypertexts, interactive fiction, and alternate reality games. How 'radical' can printed Future Narratives really be, given the constraints of their media? When exactly do they not only play with the mere idea of multiple continuations, but actually stage genuine openness and potentiality? Process- rather than product-oriented, text-based Future Narratives are seen as performative and contingent systems, simulating their own emergence.

The Future of Humanity
The Future of Humanity

Author: Michio Kaku

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2018-02-20

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0385542771

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The national bestselling author of The God Equation traverses the frontiers of astrophysics, artificial intelligence, and technology to offer a stunning vision of man's future in space, from settling Mars to traveling to distant galaxies. “Amazing … Kaku is in smooth perfect control of it the entire time.” —The Christian Science Monitor We are entering a new Golden Age of space exploration. With irrepressible enthusiasm and a deep understanding of the cutting-edge research in space travel, world-renowned physicist and futurist Dr. Michio Kaku presents a compelling vision of how humanity may develop a sustainable civilization in outer space. He reveals the developments in robotics, nanotechnology, and biotechnology that may allow us to terraform and build habitable cities on Mars and beyond. He then journeys out of our solar system and discusses how new technologies such as nanoships, laser sails, and fusion rockets may actually make interstellar travel a possibility. We travel beyond our galaxy, and even beyond our universe, as Kaku investigates some of the hottest topics in science today, including warp drive, wormholes, hyperspace, parallel universes, and the multiverse. Ultimately, he shows us how humans may someday achieve a form of immortality and be able to leave our bodies entirely, laser porting to new havens in space.

On the Origin of Good Moves
On the Origin of Good Moves

Author: Willy Hendriks

Publisher: New In Chess

Published: 2020-04-10

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 905691880X

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The way a beginner develops into a strong chess player closely resembles the progress of the game of chess itself. This popular idea is the reason why many renowned chess instructors such as former World Champions Garry Kasparov and Max Euwe, emphasize the importance of studying the history of chess. Willy Hendriks agrees that there is much to be learned from the pioneers of our game. He challenges, however, the conventional view on what the stages in the advancement of chess actually have been. Among the various articles of faith that Hendriks questions is Wilhelm Steinitz's reputation as the discoverer of the laws of positional chess. In The Origin of Good Moves Hendriks undertakes a groundbreaking investigative journey into the history of chess. He explains what actually happened, creates fresh perspectives, finds new heroes, and reveals the real driving force behind improvement in chess: evolution. This thought-provoking book is full of beautiful and instructive ‘new’ material from the old days. With plenty of exercises, the reader is invited to put themselves in the shoes of the old masters. Never before has the study of the history of chess been so entertaining and rewarding.

Thunderhead
Thunderhead

Author: Mary O'Hara

Publisher:

Published: 1945

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 9781405210010

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Aimed at the 9+ age group, 'Thunderhead' is the engrossing story of Ken's hopes for the mighty Thunderhead and their mountain adventure. It aims to captivate boys and girls alike.

How to Lead in Church Conflict
How to Lead in Church Conflict

Author: K. Brynolf Lyon

Publisher: Abingdon Press

Published: 2012-04-01

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1426756089

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The hurts of people often spill over into the life of the congregation causing conflict. Your chair of finance is going through a nasty divorce and is mad at God. The mother of one of your Sunday School teachers is chronically ill. A major factory in your community has relocated, taking with it many of your church members’ jobs. Some losses in your own life remain painful and unresolved. And you wonder why the church council meetings are so rancorous and your church is mired in unproductive conflict. What do you do? How should you lead? According to Lyon and Moseley, conflict is often about ungrieved loss. When conflict occurs, pastors and other church leaders must know how to be present in the dynamics of grieving loss, encouraging space for a new thing to emerge. With rich and helpful illustrations, this book reveals how leaders can understand group-wide dynamics of conflict, ground their leadership in the liturgical meanings and rhythms of church life, and accompany congregations through potentially destructive realities toward the creative possibilities that conflict can bring.