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humanegames: FEMICOM is a portmanteau that combines the words feminine and computing. It is also a nod to the Japanese video game console called the Nintendo Famicom. FEMICOM is my attempt to document and preserve those special pockets of feminine tech, especially of the 20th century. Tamagotchis and Hello Kitty Game Boys are part of…
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FEMICOM is a portmanteau that combines the words feminine and computing. It is also a nod to the Japanese video game console called the Nintendo Famicom. FEMICOM is my attempt to document and preserve those special pockets of feminine tech, especially of the 20th century. Tamagotchis and Hello Kitty Game Boys are part of this…
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FEMICOM is a portmanteau that combines the words feminine and computing. It is also a nod to the Japanese video game console called the Nintendo Famicom. FEMICOM is my attempt to document and preserve those special pockets of feminine tech, especially of the 20th century. Tamagotchis and Hello Kitty Game Boys are part of this…
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The New Robot Domesticity
The New Robot Domesticity jenlindblad: Diego Trujillo-Pisanty, currently a student in the Design Interactions department at the Royal College of Art in London, has looked ahead at how future homes might be redesigned to accommodate domestic robots. Rather than build entire new forms of architecture, however, Diego suggests that we’ll first begin quite simply: retrofitting our interior environments, in often…
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itsherfactory: Rachel Maddow: The Fresh Air Interview “I don’t think anybody set out to make us so divorced from the wars that we wage,” she says. “But all of these little tweaks — all of these little changes that we made — had the effect of letting a president wage war without political restraint and…
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itsherfactory: Rachel Maddow: The Fresh Air Interview “I don’t think anybody set out to make us so divorced from the wars that we wage,” she says. “But all of these little tweaks — all of these little changes that we made — had the effect of letting a president wage war without political restraint and…
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Call of Apathy: Violent Young Men and Our Place in War
Call of Apathy: Violent Young Men and Our Place in War xtianw: War is the most horrific, sickening thing mankind can inflict upon itself, fought by and large by uneducated maniacs that have no other place in the world. Videogames have the attention of the youth and can educate as well as entertain. The real…
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Call of Apathy: Violent Young Men and Our Place in War
Call of Apathy: Violent Young Men and Our Place in War xtianw: War is the most horrific, sickening thing mankind can inflict upon itself, fought by and large by uneducated maniacs that have no other place in the world. Videogames have the attention of the youth and can educate as well as entertain. The real…
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Response: Call of Apathy: Advanced Warfighter
Response: Call of Apathy: Advanced Warfighter xtianw: The list of questions raised by our military’s digital paradigm shift doesn’t stop with its effects on our youth. What few answers are provided are shrouded in the smoke and mirrors of “classified information” and “the interest of national security.” Is the risk of fratricide or civilian casualties…
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Response: Call of Apathy: Advanced Warfighter
Response: Call of Apathy: Advanced Warfighter xtianw: The list of questions raised by our military’s digital paradigm shift doesn’t stop with its effects on our youth. What few answers are provided are shrouded in the smoke and mirrors of “classified information” and “the interest of national security.” Is the risk of fratricide or civilian casualties…