Friday, August 11, 2006
Friends Optional
There are daily inventions which are moving society in a direction where social contact with other humans will be a foreign concept in the next decade. MSN? Google Talk? My space? Now comes Air hockey Over a Distance.
The game is played like a conventional air hockey game. However, the table is split in half and the two ends are connected via a network. The players can see and hear each other at all times. They shoot a real puck back and forth, trying to score a goal. Once the puck passes the midway-line, its location is detected, and a corresponding physical puck is shot out at the other table.
The game is played like a conventional air hockey game. However, the table is split in half and the two ends are connected via a network. The players can see and hear each other at all times. They shoot a real puck back and forth, trying to score a goal. Once the puck passes the midway-line, its location is detected, and a corresponding physical puck is shot out at the other table.
People, Robert Putnam was using a metaphor to describe a situation when he penned Bowling Alone. It was not meant as encouragement.
# posted by Shaky @ 7:54 p.m. 
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