The fitness at a single locus ripped from its interactive context is about as relevant to real problems of evolutionary genetics as the study of the psychology of individuals isolated from their social context is to an understanding of man's sociopolitical evolution.
I just came across an article that ran a few months ago in Bloomberg Business Week that talked about the "Dunbar Number," a figure that evolutionary psychiatrist Robin Dunbar came up with that says that really the most people we can actually truly know on a comfortable and truly interactive basis is about 150.
That isn't anything to do with what the real potential of interactive entertainment is "about", and if we could just kind of wrest control of the medium away from these nerd dudes and their nerd power fantasies there'd be more and better and different stuff and people everywhere would take games seriously and relate to them and enjoy them.
Meanwhile and frustratingly, Armada Interactive is remaining mum about what it's actually working on, except to drop a list of mobile gaming buzzwords that make little sense to 40 year-old me (hey, I made my gaming debut on Chuckie Egg).
SXSW Interactive is no longer about the panels or keynotes, having become a five day experiment in the ability of technology to withstand the load of over 20,000 influencers congregated in the same location, trying to network using various digital tools.
This interactive is based on 2015 data about political preferences from Pew Research, which polls registered voters regularly and extensively.
We do math on that log – you know, by the way, add – added it – you know, the thing about CBS interactive is close relationship with guys like David Poltrack who runs research for CBS.
It's about as interactive as reading a newspaper while watching a newscast, only slower.
"To me, the consumer, 'interactive television' sounds like interactive television is about making television harder to watch, like I have to work at television when I just want to watch it," Mr. Kertzman said.
The interactive story is about a child sitting inside on a rainy day.
