Paraphrased highlights from Will Wright during a great and far ranging interview with John Battelle (with some help from Crowd-Sourced questions via Google Moderator):
"As people are creating more of their identity on the web….. we are now starting to see the intersection of virtual identities and real identities…games are an aspect of that, and will integrate with that Wii represents non-immersive games, where the action is often away from the screen."
~ Will Wright
" Coming soon as an outgrowth of Wii and mobile gaming….. Augmented reality—the world around you is now part of the game. I am interested in games that intersect the real world…games
are a powerful lens, a filter, a map….that can help us understand…"
~ Will Wright
"Games make people better at dealing with the world… a kid pressing buttons on a controller is using the scientific method. They teach problem solving. However, this type of learning is very resistant to standardized testing. Games evolved to be fun for us for a reason. We find play to be enjoyable for education reasons."
~ Will Wright
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the sparking of a fire."
~ Will Wright quoting anonymous
From Tekzilla live Taping at Web 2.0:
"Twitter is lubricant for web content...makes it more efficient....I like that" ~Evan Williams
" We are going to keep offering bigger, better more...but that doesn't mean more than 140 characters :<) " ~Evan Williams (with implied emoticon)
"Web2 Open is the starter drug for un-conferences."
~ Jennifer Pahlka, during blogger roundtable, talking about the open space part of the Web 2.0 Conference
Also from the Blogger roundtable:
"The re-tweet is the smallest unit of publishing."
~ Tim O’Reilly
"Study twitter—there are lessons for businesses of all other forms."
~ Tim O’Reilly
For more information on Web 2.0:
For a video blog covering part of the blogger roundtable:
http://www.viddler.com/explore/kyeung808/videos/20/
Posted by: Kenneth Yeung http://www.thelettertwo.com
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