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With few exceptions, Wright's pieces still look good-not elegant or sophisticated like a Barcelona chair, but pleasing and "user friendly." They remain contemporary, a word often used in Wright's heyday partly to overcome the prevailing resistance to "modern" and partly because, like Danish furniture, Russel Wright designs were different in spirit from the work introduced by New York City's Museum of Modern...
...guiding spirit, Inabeth Miller, director of the Gutman Library at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, was to harness the dynamic stimulation of the games to foster learning without drudgery. Sylvia Weir, a research associate at M.I.T., showed a film of an educational video game in which the user experiences the principles of Newtonian physics. One scientist indicated that the games are already serving those hardest to educate. Stephen Leff, of the Harvard Medical School, reported preliminary findings that video games' "massive capacity for eliciting attention" helped stimulate the chronically mentally...
Alan Kay, chief scientist of Atari, closed the conference with a vision of the video-game joy stick as a magic wand capable of creating new worlds. The video game, he said, aligned with the computer, was "a new kind of kinetic art," a medium that will allow the user to explore his own imagination. "Games are the most important thing ever invented," he noted, "because they allow us to control and amplify our fantasies...
Giving the computer the ability to communicate in the language of the user instead of that of the machine and improving computer displays are the two anticipated improvements, Van Baalen said, adding. "Who's in charge here anyway? We should not be slaves to the computers--they should be our servants...
...with the aid of an Oxford alumnus. Director John Schlesinger, who helped get production equipment at a discount), has achieved a perfectly glittering surprise on its first try. Indeed the film is flawed at its center by an unattractive protagonist named Edward, an oversmart, oversmug womanizer and all-around user of people, who is supposed to summarize all that is wrong with traditional Oxford attitudes. In this role Robert Woolley does the nasty bits well, but mostly leaves out those moments of charm and vulnerability that might have evoked real sympathy...