Abishai100
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This is a Media Age IQ vignette (referencing the iconic Commodore 64) inspired by The Wizard.
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Americans students on the campus of UNLV (University of Nevada Las Vegas) were collecting vintage models of the iconic Commodore 64 home-computer and evaluating the graphics interface and user-friendliness of various video-games on it such as Donkey Kong and Winter Olympics. The purpose was to assess how the progression of design in home-computers (as compared to, say, modern-day mobile interface platforms such as the iPhone) reflected a general cultural investment in 'entertainment aesthetics.'
As most Americans know and appreciate, entertainment aesthetics speaks to a new age social fascination with the contours of production ergonomics, since modern audiences/consumers demand lifestyle-reflecting goods/toys (such as iPods, Google watches, GPS, and the vintage home-intercom). The UNLV students (mostly computer-science majors) were comparing the Commodore 64 vintage home-computer user-friendly 'ergonomics' to metaphysics analyses of broad-scale vitality totems or even avatars such as the ferocity-symbolic giant Red Dragon. The hope was to compare computer use itself (in the modern age) to basic capitalism/consumerism propaganda (e.g., Facebook).
UNLV students whose athletic teams boasted the colourful and unusual 'mascot' of the chevalier-like patriot-soldier for their team-title 'the Runnin' Rebels' were familiar with goal-oriented iconography, so the notion that consumerism and goods would reflect the social creativity/subconscious matrix was not too outlandish to entertain(!). After all, the Runnin' Rebels were an incredibly exciting and nationally-televised American men's college basketball team in the late 1980s and early 1990s (before the meteoric rise of the canon-like Duke Blue Devils!). The UNLV students wanted to understand why the Commodore 64 was the 'creativity predecessor' to the modern-day Google watch and Tablet. It was all good civilization detective-work.
GOD: Circuit City and CompUSA have gone out of business...
SATAN: Best Buy and RadioShack are still flourishing, however.
GOD: The computer market has drastically changed.
SATAN: Yes, and the iPhone and Samsung products are dominating today.
GOD: The UNLV students evaluating the Commodore 64 should be commended.
SATAN: It's the age of video-games and 'virtual imagination.'
GOD: That's all thanks to commerce which creates goods-oriented customs (e.g., eBay).
SATAN: The modern terrorist is the Internet-hacker.
GOD: That's why there are so many movies now about cyber-imagination.
SATAN: Yes, I really like "Tron" [1982], "Pixels" [2015], and "Robots" [2005].
GOD: The more chatter there is about electronics, the more we're curious about tech.
SATAN: The comic book super-villain Electro (Marvel Comics) represents mischief.
GOD: The challenge of TrumpUSA will be to sort out frills from psychiatry!
SATAN: Perhaps 'capitalism-pyromania' can be controlled with commercial architecture...
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Americans students on the campus of UNLV (University of Nevada Las Vegas) were collecting vintage models of the iconic Commodore 64 home-computer and evaluating the graphics interface and user-friendliness of various video-games on it such as Donkey Kong and Winter Olympics. The purpose was to assess how the progression of design in home-computers (as compared to, say, modern-day mobile interface platforms such as the iPhone) reflected a general cultural investment in 'entertainment aesthetics.'
As most Americans know and appreciate, entertainment aesthetics speaks to a new age social fascination with the contours of production ergonomics, since modern audiences/consumers demand lifestyle-reflecting goods/toys (such as iPods, Google watches, GPS, and the vintage home-intercom). The UNLV students (mostly computer-science majors) were comparing the Commodore 64 vintage home-computer user-friendly 'ergonomics' to metaphysics analyses of broad-scale vitality totems or even avatars such as the ferocity-symbolic giant Red Dragon. The hope was to compare computer use itself (in the modern age) to basic capitalism/consumerism propaganda (e.g., Facebook).
UNLV students whose athletic teams boasted the colourful and unusual 'mascot' of the chevalier-like patriot-soldier for their team-title 'the Runnin' Rebels' were familiar with goal-oriented iconography, so the notion that consumerism and goods would reflect the social creativity/subconscious matrix was not too outlandish to entertain(!). After all, the Runnin' Rebels were an incredibly exciting and nationally-televised American men's college basketball team in the late 1980s and early 1990s (before the meteoric rise of the canon-like Duke Blue Devils!). The UNLV students wanted to understand why the Commodore 64 was the 'creativity predecessor' to the modern-day Google watch and Tablet. It was all good civilization detective-work.
GOD: Circuit City and CompUSA have gone out of business...
SATAN: Best Buy and RadioShack are still flourishing, however.
GOD: The computer market has drastically changed.
SATAN: Yes, and the iPhone and Samsung products are dominating today.
GOD: The UNLV students evaluating the Commodore 64 should be commended.
SATAN: It's the age of video-games and 'virtual imagination.'
GOD: That's all thanks to commerce which creates goods-oriented customs (e.g., eBay).
SATAN: The modern terrorist is the Internet-hacker.
GOD: That's why there are so many movies now about cyber-imagination.
SATAN: Yes, I really like "Tron" [1982], "Pixels" [2015], and "Robots" [2005].
GOD: The more chatter there is about electronics, the more we're curious about tech.
SATAN: The comic book super-villain Electro (Marvel Comics) represents mischief.
GOD: The challenge of TrumpUSA will be to sort out frills from psychiatry!
SATAN: Perhaps 'capitalism-pyromania' can be controlled with commercial architecture...
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