The Interactive Book: A Guide to the Interactive Revolution

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Summary: A brilliant book
Review: Fascinating. The book contextualizes what the interactive revolution is about. How much did I like it? I teach New Media at UCLA Extension and "The Interactive Book" is the required text for my new course, "Fundamentals of New Media for the Entertainment Professional".

Rating:
Summary: A brilliant book
Review: Fascinating. The book contextualizes what the interactive revolution is about. How much did I like it? I teach New Media at UCLA Extension and "The Interactive Book" is the required text for my new course, "Fundamentals of New Media for the Entertainment Professional".

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Summary: Interactive egomania
Review: The Interactive Book is fascinating and lluminating. Celia Pearce has a long experiential history in virtual reality and cyberworlds. She was also SIGGRAPH 98's panels chair, an artist, architect, designer and producer. The Interactive Book covers a range of design and technical issues while blending Celia's own history and experiences with the key contributors of this industry . The book is insightful, mind-expanding and takes one to that next level of knowledge.

As an instructor of 3D Media on the Web at UCLA, UC Irvine and UC Berkeley Extension, "The Interactive Book" is my highest recommended book to my students

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Summary: Interactive egomania
Review: This book annoyed the crap out of me. The author is completely entranced by herself, her career, and her self-image as a member of the digerati. THE INTERACTIVE BOOK is long, boring, and appears to have been released without benefit of editing.

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Summary: A "choose your own adventure" book of the future.
Review: This book is a vast overview of all of the subject areas that have been affected by the changing technology. Although the author does not delve into each of these topics, she does a good job of briefly describing them. This book was written with a very personal spin. Ms. Pearce has a tendency to include her opinion in most articles of the book. This book was written much like a "choose your own adventure" book from childhood. However, not all of the links are truely connected to the main article. The idea of jumping from piece to piece is an interesting one, but it still needs to be perfected. The Interactive Book is a good attempt at the reading of the future; however, it may have been better off on the web.