http://blog.plugimi.com/2006/12/28/joi-ito-on-world-of-warcraft/ Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:13:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://blog.plugimi.com/2006/12/28/joi-ito-on-world-of-warcraft/comment-page-1/#comment-3332 waffler[dot]org » Joichi Ito on WoW: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:58:16 +0000 http://blog.plugimi.com/?p=314#comment-3332 [...] The choice quote I found though, came from someone called Sascha Pohflepp, who apparently also watched the presentation. “Joi’s dashboard is enormous. According to him, it’s more like flying with instruments and the actual 3D realm becomes more of a background to the statistics he’s watching. So some runs require up to 40 players of level 60 each to cooperate, with an intricate rank-system, different skills, etc., everyone linked over audio and Joi in command. (I see that this is generating a lot of fuss in business circles with Yahoo allegedly considering applicants’ experience in WoW, because it’s all about solving problems and coordination and especially leadership. But – much more obvious, this is the future of war. Commanding 40 soldiers from a computer with complete overview of the relevant contexts is practically identical to what for instance the US army likes to call the digital battlefield, applied and working.)” [...] [...] The choice quote I found though, came from someone called Sascha Pohflepp, who apparently also watched the presentation. “Joi’s dashboard is enormous. According to him, it’s more like flying with instruments and the actual 3D realm becomes more of a background to the statistics he’s watching. So some runs require up to 40 players of level 60 each to cooperate, with an intricate rank-system, different skills, etc., everyone linked over audio and Joi in command. (I see that this is generating a lot of fuss in business circles with Yahoo allegedly considering applicants’ experience in WoW, because it’s all about solving problems and coordination and especially leadership. But – much more obvious, this is the future of war. Commanding 40 soldiers from a computer with complete overview of the relevant contexts is practically identical to what for instance the US army likes to call the digital battlefield, applied and working.)” [...]

]]> http://blog.plugimi.com/2006/12/28/joi-ito-on-world-of-warcraft/comment-page-1/#comment-1269 Florian Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:54:24 +0000 http://blog.plugimi.com/?p=314#comment-1269 Hi, I found your blog via google by accident and have to admit that youve a really interesting blog :-) Just saved your feed in my reader, have a nice day :) Hi,
I found your blog via google by accident and have to admit that youve a really interesting blog :-)
Just saved your feed in my reader, have a nice day :)

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