War Play: Video Games and the Future of Armed Conflict by Corey Mead
The nutshell: Mead, a professor of English at Baruch College, explores the role of video games in the military-entertainment complex and the influence America’s armed forces have had on the country’s technology and education.
Literary lovechild of: Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game and James Paul Gee’s What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy.
Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America’s First Female Rocket Scientist by George D. Morgan
The nutshell: Mary Sherman Morgan’s playwright son, George D. Morgan, knew that his mother …
The speed of light is inconceivably fast. It is just shy of 300,000 kilometers per second. That is, for everyday purposes, instantaneous. A signal from the space probe Voyager 1, …
Viral Hate: Containing Its Spread on the Internet by Abraham H. Foxman and Christopher Wolf
The nutshell: Foxman and Wolf—both of the Anti-Defamation League—argue that Internet hate speech is a dangerous …
Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet by Finn Brunton
The nutshell: University of Michigan information scholar Brunton uses spam as a window into the history of the Internet, providing insight …
The silicon computer chip is reaching the limits of Moore’s Law, Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore’s observation that the number of transistors on chips would double every two years. Moore’s …
Video games have practically limitless potential to teach our children about everything from math and history to gender roles and spatial skills—but we’re still figuring out how to harness their …
In the early 1980s, spurred by the incredible popularity of Atari, Space Invaders, and Pac-Man, everyone seemed to be talking about video games, if not obsessively playing them. A …
Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and numerous other immersive games have connected people to music in a new way. Some have even found themselves tapping into musical reserves they didn’t know …
The sensation that is Pokemon Go has gotten millions of players off the couch and into their neighborhoods. The game’s artful use of augmented reality (AR) has demonstrated perhaps more …
