This morning I set pen to paper and sketched my thoughts of where the next generation of personal digital equipment is going to be going. There are limitations, of course – AirPort and Bluetooth don’t play well with each other, for example – but all the components are there and just waiting to be put together. Once again, I find myself wishing this were 1997… Back in the days when I could take four pages’ worth of scribbled notes, stand on the side of the street and yell, “I HAVE AN IDEA!” And whammo – investor city. Especially since I really think this idea would sell… The RIAA might not like it too much, due to the inclusion of MP3s in my plans, but hey, Rosen can bite me. 🙂
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I'm the Director of the Games and Simulation program at Miami University in Ohio, where I am also an Assistant Professor in the College of Creative Arts' Emerging Technology in Business and Design department. I'm also the director of Miami's Worldbuilding and Narrative Design Research Laboratory (WNDRLab). I have a Master's in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and a PhD in Media Arts and Practices from the University of Southern California.
In past lives I've been the lead Narrative Producer for Microsoft Studios and cofounder of its Narrative Design team, working on projects like Hololens, Quantum Break and new IP incubation; in a "future of media" think tank for Microsoft's CXO/CTO and its Chief Software Architect; the Creative Director for the University of Southern California's World Building Media Lab and the Technical Director, Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab; a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier College and director of its Whittier Other Worlds Laboratory (WOWLab); the Communications Director and a researcher for the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab; a founding member of the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT (now The Futures of Entertainment); a magazine editor; and a award-winning short film producer. more »
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