Douglas Coupland's new novel,
JPod, is set in the world of video game developers. There was an interesting article about him in The Observer this week. Excerpt:
'I don't play games myself. Never. But I will watch people playing, especially if they're good. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is, of all the games to watch people play, the most fun. It's not like a race; you can take time off to just work for a while as a taxi driver, or visit a hooker. There's something interesting, fascinating actually, about watching someone take time off in a video game to go and visit a hooker. Games I do find interesting,' he says, 'for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing.'
Link: The Observer | Magazine | Generation next,
via Bookslut.
Molecular biologist Lee Silver has a new book out called
Nicholas Negroponte's
Clive Thompson writes on his blog about "