"Video games shape our culture. It’s time we took them seriously." A really great essay by Henry Jenkins (Textual Poachers) about the future of interactive media. He states the video games are in fact art, and that is is up to fans and critics to shape the video game industry through cooperation and constructive critisim.

Turkle talks to children, college students, engineers, AI scientists, hackers, and personal computer owners--people confronting machines that seem to think and at the same time suggest a new way for us to think--about human thought, emotion, memory, and understanding. Her interviews reveal that we experience computers as being on the border between inanimate and animate, as both an extension of the self and part of the external world.