What Will Come After the Internet

　The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly. I reread this book as a textbook, that looks ahead 30 years into the future after the internet. 　It’s easier to see the the gist of this book's argument by looking at the original English title, "Inevitable", or something that is unavoidable. Distribution, the cloud, real time. Sharing, access, remixing, tracking. I also think that these are "unavoidable" items, that will come to define the future. 　High speed, high definition, miniaturization, low price...these were "inevitable" up until now, but the internet...

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The Famicom and it’s Generation

　Famicom and Its Age by Masayuki Uemura, Koichi Hosoi, and Akinori Nakamura. A research paper written based on the industry-academic public game archive project implemented in 1998.  After an initial boom around video game technology developed in the area of MIT, Nintendo enjoys 20 years of hegemony after the North American video game crash of 1983. Vannevar Bush’s memex, Engelbart, Alan Kay, and Papert are drawing a digital evolutionary history. 　 Truly Interesting. 　The history of video games is an accumulation of the excitement...

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Media and the LDP

　Media and the Liberal Democratic Party by Ryosuke Nishida .   The Minister of  Internal Affairs and Communications referred to stopping the radio waves of broadcasting stations, and big newscasters stepped down from their programs, and a suspicious smell drifted into the relationship between politics and the media. A good book to get a grasp on.   This book is about how the "familiarity" of politics and the media as demonstrated by reporters clubs and the beat reporter system is changing in the era of the Internet and social...

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