Milburn Mondo Nano

Fun and Games in the World of Digital Matter
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7633-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 424 Seiten

Reihe: Experimental Futures

Colin Milburn examines how nanotechnology research has developed in relation to video games, allowing for the creation of new technologies that enable the transformation of scientific speculation and video game fantasy into reality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Milburn, Colin

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Hobbies & Spiele
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Nanotechnologie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Computerspiele, Internetspiele

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Press Start 1

Just for Fun 7

Digital Matters 39

Tempest in a Teapot 77

Massively Multiplayer Laboratories 108

Weapons-Grade Cartoons 135

Have Nanosuit—Will Travel 173

Nanopolitanisms 201

My Little Avatar 236

Game Over—Play Again? 293

Acknowledgments 301

Notes 305

Bibliography 349

Index 399

Über Autor(innen)

Colin Milburn is Gary Snyder Chair in Science and the Humanities and Professor of English, Science and Technology Studies, and Cinema and Technocultural Studies at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Nanovision: Engineering the Future, also published by Duke University Press.