If you look back on humanity's technological progress over the past 20 someot years it is absolutely insane how far we have come. In video games we've gone from simple picture based point-and-click adventures like Myst to highly detailed and extremely realistic romps on alien planets ala Halo and Mass Effect, not to mention terrifyingly realistic war simulators like Call of Duty. In regards to movies try watching early 90s films with heavy special effects compared to anything that has come out this year (Transformers, Godzilla, Edge of Tomorrow). The CGI in those early 90s movies is almost laughable now (Jurassic Park still seems to hold up though). The dawn of the Internet has radically changed humanity for the better I'd like to think (though sometimes internet trolls and 4chan would beg to differ). To quote Manovich, "To use a metaphor from computer culture, new media transforms all culture and cultural theory into an 'open source.'" He couldn't be more correct. With how everyone can be connected all over the globe at anytime with our technology is mind boggling and how new media has developed and evolved is nothing short of inspiring.
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