Computer- og spilbranchen

Man kan ikke overvurdere videospils indflydelse på vor tids kultur og underholdningsindustri. Her er du som spiller i centrum, og det interaktive element suger dig ind i både spilverdenen og fortællingen. Det er en oplevelse, som andre medier har svært ved at hamle op med.Gameplay er en grundbog til analyse af video-, online-, computer- og konsolspil. Den er skrevet med afsæt i mediefag og ud fra fagets traditioner for filmanalyse. At bruge videospil i undervisningen giver mulighed for at sammenligne film, tv og nyere medier på tværs af hinanden og undersøge begreber som tværmedialitet, intertekstualitet og distributionsplatforme.Bogen kan læses af alle der har lyst til at blive klogere på computerspil. Dens udgangspunkt er dog som lærebog til mediefag på ungdomsuddannelserne. Bogen indeholder:En grundig indføring i gameplayanalysen ud fra spilfortælling, spilverden og spilstyring.Et overblik over spilhistorien fra de første forsøg med elektroniske spil i årene efter 2. Verdenskrig til vor tids AAA-spil.Genrekapitler, der giver dig overblik over og indsigt i de grundlæggende spilgenrer samt deres undergenrer: action-, adventure-, RPG-, strategi- og simulationsspil.Perspektiverende kapitler om mediekonvergens, tværmedialitet og udvikling samt distribution af videospil – både de store blockbusterspil, små indiespil samt danske videospil. På www.frydenlund.dk finder du en lang række øvelser til bogens kapitler. Martin Houlind underviser i engelsk og mediefag ved Slagelse Gymnasium. Han står bag Facebooksiden ’Spil for galleriet’, hvor han giver tips om computerspil og gode råd til undervisningen.

I en tid hvor flere end nogenside spiller computerspil, og hvor branchen omsætter formere end filmbranchen, er det vigtigt at have en viden om, hvor videospillene kommer fra.RETRO fortæller historien om de digitale spil: Fra deres mekaniske forløbere i 1940’erne,til 1970’ernes arkadespil, og frem til nutidens spillekonsoller.Det er en skabelsesberetning lavet i kærlighed til spil.

Grab the controller! Save the World! One of the gaming industry's leading women details gaming's force for global goodPlay is in our DNA.We game to experiment with ideas and to learn. We play to create new worlds so we can change this one. Gaming pushes us to imagine what more we can become. In Push Play: Gaming for a Better World, Dr. Songyee Yoon, Chief Strategy Officer at NCSOFT, lays out how gaming can help us craft a better world.The male dominance of the gaming industry, however, has kept many talented women from pursuing their passions in STEM. As a leader in the industry, Dr. Yoon shares her experience as a woman in STEM and her quest for a more diverse and equitable tech community. After all, the game only gets better with more players.In Push Play, Dr. Yoon outlines how innovations in gaming push industries forward and create a more equitable world for all. Learn how gaming inspires Artificial Intelligence to consider everyone's perspective. Master tips and tricks from gaming that can be used to lead diverse and thriving business teams. Explore the virtual worlds of Massively Multiplayer Online Games and understand why we need digital communities for everyone.So, flex those thumbs with Push Play to unlock your power to play.

In this book, author Will Larson shows you ways to obtain your first executive job and quickly ramp up to meet the challenges you may not have encountered in non-executive roles.

"Starting with Financial Technology: The New Investment Era" is a comprehensive guide that introduces readers to the dynamic and rapidly evolving world of financial technology (FinTech). Breaking down complex terminologies, concepts and models into simple, easily-understandable language, this unparalleled guide traverses through important aspects of FinTech starting from its introduction to predicted future impacts. The book begins with a solid introduction to Financial Technology, outlining all it entails. This understanding sets the foundation for exploring how traditional investment models held wealth, and where FinTech reshapes this ideology. You'll journey through the fascinating history of digital finance, gleaning critical insights about how novel FinTech innovations have disrupted the finance sector. The book further unravels the elements that lay the groundwork for FinTech disruptions, explaining complex aspects including Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Robo-advisors, and Algo-Trading. Exclusive sections devoted to each demonstrate their individual and convergent roles in redefining future finance. Personalized wealth strategies and digitalizing the investment process focus on how FinTech caters to investors today, showcasing the benefits these contemporary techniques entail.In light of the evolving finance mechanism, there is rapidly increasing dependence on technological solutions like Peer-to-Peer lending, Cloud Banking, Cybersecurity, and resilient systems. The book provides irreplaceable insights on how this evolution impacts and can be implemented into organizations. Unravel crucial racial towards regulatory concerns and compliance issues altered by FinTech revolution, equipping you to better understand and navigate this landscape."Beginning with Financial Technology: The New Investment Age" includes crucial dialogues regarding the returns provided by FinTech investments. It emphasizes the significant role of financial literacy in promoting responsible digital investment. This is intended to underline an increasingly transparent future.This guide will make you think ahead by discussing further predictions and continuous disruptions FinTech promises. A concluding chapter encapsulates young financial disciplines such as sustainable investing, green finance, and its resilience.A perhaps most popular fruit of digitisation is capturing all these progressive changes in a rapidly changing sector. Therefore, whether you're a casually interested layman, a curious student, or an ambitious professional seeking to leverage FinTech, this book could mark the start of your deep dive into the intuitive field of Financial Technology.

"Our Next Reality does a fantastic job of giving a balanced and insightful analysis to some of the most pressing questions our society will face in the near future. The material is data driven, digestible, and very actionable." RAY KURZWEIL, Author/Entrepreneur/Futurist"A wide-reaching exploration of the intersections between AI, VR and AR: it's a mind-opener, and a source of reflection on how transformative and still unknown the future of communication, personal technology and even personal privacy might become." SCOTT STEIN, Editor at Large, CNETOver the last 100 years, technology has changed our world. Over the next decade it will transform our reality.We are entering a new technological age in which artificial intelligence and immersive media will transform society at all levels, mediating our lives by altering what we see, hear, and experience. Powered by immersive eyewear and driven by interactive AI agents, this new age of computing has the potential to make our world a magical place where the boundaries between the real and the virtual, the human and the artificial, rapidly fade away. If managed well, this could unleash a new age of abundance. If managed poorly, this technological revolution could easily go astray, deeply compromising our privacy, autonomy, agency, and even our humanity.In Our Next Reality, two industry veterans provide a data-driven debate on whether the new world we're creating will be a technological utopia or an AI-powered dystopia and give guidance on how to aim for the best future we can. With a Foreword by renowned author Neal Stephenson and section contributions from industry thought-leaders such as Peter H. Diamandis, Tom Furness, Phillip Rosedale, Tony Parisi, Avi Bar Zeev and Walter Parkes, this book answers over a dozen of the most pressing questions we face as artificial intelligence and spatial computing accelerates the digitization of our world. Find out why our actions in the next decade could determine the trajectory of our species for countless millennia."For anyone who wants to use AI and XR to help build the future, read this book to help you skillfully navigate a future of unprecedented danger and promise." JASON HINER, Editor in Chief, ZDNet"Our Next Reality really is a must-read for anyone who wants to prepare for the massive AI and XR driven disruption coming our way." CHARLIE FINK, Author | Adjunct | Forbes Tech Columnist

UPDATED WITH A NEW PREFACELONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZEA FINANCIAL TIMES TECHNOLOGY BOOK OF THE YEAR'The blueprint we need for the challenges ahead' Shoshana Zuboff'If you are not already an addict of Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson's previous books, Power and Progress is guaranteed to make you one' Jared Diamond'A breathtaking tour of the history and future of technology' Abhijit Banerjee and Esther DufloA bold new interpretation of why technology benefits the elites - and how we must reshape the path of innovation to create true shared prosperity. A thousand years of history make one thing clear: progress is not automatic but depends on the choices we make. Much of the wealth generated by agricultural advances during the Middle Ages was captured by the Church while the peasants starved. The first hundred years of industrialization delivered stagnant incomes for workers, while making a few people rich. Throughout the world today, digital technologies and artificial intelligence increase inequality and undermine democracy. It doesn't have to be this way. Power and Progress demonstrates that the path of technology was once - and can again be - brought under control. With their breakthrough economic theory and manifesto for a better society, Acemoglu and Johnson provide the vision to reshape how we innovate so we can create real prosperity for all.

The United States Federal Government's Controlled Unclassified Information ("CUI") program completely transforms the way unclassified information is shared and handled by and with the government. The CUI program impacts not only federal employees, but also government contractors and others who interact with the federal government. The CUI program is a transformational change for the government which involves fundamental rethinking of the way the government identifies and safeguards unclassified, but still sensitive, information. These same identification and handling requirements also extend to anyone to whom the government gives CUI, and even to those whom the government hires to create CUI. As a federal employee or government contractor, you must understand at least the basics of the CUI program. Even if you think that you do not currently handle CUI.CUI Fundamentals gives walks you through the basics of the CUI program. Written as a series of 100 questions and easy to understand answers, CUI Fundamentals answers questions such as: What motivated the government to create the CUI program?What is the difference between classified information, CUI, and FCI?What is the difference between designating and marking information as CUI?Who is authorized to designate information as CUI?Who is authorized to mark information as CUI?How should government contractors handle legacy information?How should government contractors handle information they suspect to be CUI?And much more! Pick up your copy today to learn the fundamentals of the CUI program!

How To Benefit From Emerging TechnologiesFrom the daggers and axes of the cavemen societies to today's spacecraft, self-driving cars, metaverses, and AI-filled societies, technology has significantly emerged and brought about a massive transformation to our lives. The pace of this innovation has been particularly colossal in this industrial era, continuously disrupting our lives. Where will this imminent tech take us in the future?This book will dissect how various aspects of our lives will be transformed in the years to come, with a particular focus on how to benefit from these emerging technologies. You will gain a 360 degree view by getting a historical perspective of technology because discussions about the future are seldom complete without history.The ongoing debate on whether technology will replace our jobs is causing great panic. However, failure to catch up to technology is guaranteed to be catastrophic. This book will provide a freight of the latest tech-driven trends to equip everyone to face the future, like a one-time software upgrade.Whether you are a student, a fresh graduate, a bewildered parent, or a tech enthusiast, this book offers everything you need to be ahead of the game. It will also help budding entrepreneurs, business owners, and corporate professionals identify opportunities to incorporate the right tech into their businesses and be at the forefront of innovation.

This book focuses on the design, development, and analysis of augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR)-based systems, along with the technological impacts and challenges in social learning. Social Learning provides a comprehensive approach to researching methods in the emerging fields of AR/VR. The contributors of this book outline the state-of-the-art implementation of AR/VR for the Internet of Things, Blockchains, Big Data, and 5G within AR/VR systems.

5G and related digital revolutions will require tens of thousands of edge data centers. This book tells you how they work and how to get them built.We are in the middle of the edge computing revolution. Responding to demand for lower latency, telcos and others are moving servers and storage closer to end users-away from the "core" to "the edge." This requires the deployment of many thousands of tiny edge data centers.The edge is a big, growing business. Driven by 5G, connected vehicles, and industrial automation, the "edge economy" is projected to reach $4.1 trillion by 2030, with investment in edge data centers set to exceed $140 billion by 2028.What exactly is an edge data center? This book explains what they are and how they work. It's early in the edge computing life cycle, so there's time to get prepared for what's coming.If you work in an industry that's transforming through mobility, or any field that will leverage the edge for competitive advantage, this book will help you understand how the edge data center advances your strategic agenda.

"The Internet of today is a far cry from its early promise of a decentralized, democratic network of creativity and innovation. In the past decade, the Internet has fallen under the control of a tiny group of massive companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook. In Read Write Own, tech visionary Chris Dixon argues that the dream of an open network for fostering creativity and entrepreneurship doesn't have to die, and that in fact it can, and must, be saved with blockchain networks, which he vitally separates from the currency-based speculation that it is unfortunately lumped together with - a distinction he calls "The Computer vs The Casino". With lucid and compelling prose - and drawing from his first-hand observations, mental models, and experiences over a 25-year career in the Internet industry - Dixon shows how the Internet has undergone three distinct eras, bringing us to the critical moment we're in today. The first act was the "read era," lasting from 1990 to 2005, in which early Internet networks democratized information. In the "read-write era," 2006-2020, corporate networks democratized publishing. And we are now entering the "read-write-own era," sometimes called web3, in which blockchain networks have begun to democratize ownership, granting power and economic benefits to the participants in the network--not just to massive corporations"--

A Tale of Struggle and Adversity in the Fight to keep the Amiga alive. From Vultures to Vampires is the fascinating true account of what happened to Commodore after the fateful New York auction sale of 1995.Volume 2 chronicles the machinations and intricate shell games surrounding the Amiga's ownership from 2005 to 2010. The heated battle for the post-Commodore Amiga crown led to the ongoing development of competing next-generation PowerPC-based computers and operating systems.As companies faded from the scene, new champions took up the challenge of keeping the Amiga dream alive. The twists and turns involving Commoodore's trademarks were more convoluted. with repeased opportunistic attempts to control the Commodore brand, something that continues to this day.

Video game music is a significant site of queerness where normative demands are questioned, suspended or loosened. Games resist hegemonic musical logics, challenge musical value systems and use music to complicate essentialist notions of identity. This Element proposes three areas of queerness, each representing different relationships between 'queer design' and 'queer engagement', ranging fromunintentionally resistive to explicit engagement with identity. First, this Element examines musical structures that provide queer temporal alternatives to normative linear development, and interactive systems that reframe the power relationship between musical material and listener. Second, it considers 'retro' or 'chiptune' timbres that queer notions of technological progress to be improvements, rejecting chrononormativity. Finally, the Element discusses music that queers the self/other binary of identity. Games present ways of listening to, engaging with and understanding music that provide opportunities to challenge inherited assumptions and reductive or monolithic values, practices and identities.

What does platform thinking mean? It is the ability to put platform-based mechanisms at the core of digital business transformations in business.Digital platforms like Uber, Spotify, Airbnb, Booking.com, and many others completely re-shaped the daily life of millions of users. However, many innovation leaders struggle to conceive the significance of their impact. Platform-based business models are not just the real of geeks' startups, digital services, and Unicorns.This book shows there that their potential in creating value is higher than suspected.Even though platform ecosystems are complex, readers will take on a journey to become platform thinkers. Their eyes will be trained to look beyond what's visible and start reading the platform world around them. Then, they will be guided into a step-by-step process and learn how to write a new platform model from scratch.This book is the result of a decade of research. It offers both a framework and practical instruments to champion digital transformation in any organization. It is specially intended for those who are interested in the glittering platform world and are still trying to figure it out.

This book explores the significance, challenges and benefits of digital twin technologies; it focuses in particular on various architectures, applications and challenges in the implementation of digital twins to Machine Learning and Internet of Things capabilities. Through the analysis of smart city and smart manufacturing case studies, the book explores the benefits of digital technologies in the Industry 4.0 Era.

Are advances in technology working for us or against us? ​When our phones become our keys to access everything, will our lives be more convenient or more at the mercy of whoever can hack into our devices? Will self-driving cars help us maximize our time and get to our destination safely, or will they erode the autonomy and freedom we feel when we drive ourselves? What happens if the government, in the name of public health, gains access to the data in our handy fitness trackers and uses it to reward or limit us? In Neuromined, data sovereignty advocate Robert Edward Grant and prolific technology author Michael Ashley team up to explore significant questions such as these. Each chapter imagines a near-future surveillance dystopia through a riveting fictional tale and provides a companion analysis connecting the story to our present reality. Entertaining and provoking, this book shows readers how the technology that has promised a lifetime of convenience has also constrained a public's individual options and agency. But all hope is not lost. Neuromined, at its core, demonstrates how technology, when viewed through a different ethos and used by a conscientious public, can instead provide greater autonomy and greater access to liberation.

Don't let artificial intelligence and robots steal your job!Still Room for Humans is the only survival guide you need in order to stay employable in the future. This book will teach you how to: make yourself indispensable to your company, develop soft skills that robots and AI cannot match, collaborate with robots, retool your skills without going back to school.You will also learn which traditionally safe careers and entire industries will no longer be safe in the future because of artificial intelligence. The author details why the changes caused by disruptive technology will be far greater and take place far faster than in previous industrial revolutions.This book offers several ways to cope with the introduction of artificial intelligence and robotics to a company or organization as well as how to take advantage of the disruption likely to result from other new technologies including 3D printing, the Internet of Things, virtual reality, green technologies, Big Data, blockchain, and nanotechnology.Still Room for Humans spells out the types of jobs long associated with well-paying careers that should be avoided because they are most likely to be eliminated by artificial intelligence. It lists several new jobs that don't exist yet but will be created shortly as new technologies become more prevalent.Schatt provides career planning information as well as specific advice for those readers already employed.

The Metaverse will be the next technological revolution. This book helps business executives to understand its foundations and reveals the new opportunities it will bring.The accessible language used to explain the complex technologies involved is key to understanding the business opportunities that the Metaverse will bring. The book follows a smooth but thorough journey along all aspects associated with the Metaverse, from augmented reality, virtual reality, digital currencies, the Internet of things, 3D glasses, and many others. This book contains trustful, actionable, and practical insight from the experience of a person highly involved in technical activities and used to speak to the board of many corporations.Reading this book, you will understand not only the drivers behind the Metaverse but also the following milestones and the roadmap we can expect: an early insight to adapt your business strategy or professional career to get the most out of this new social paradigm.

Recently we have seen several catastrophic events causing huge disruptions, losses, and panic. There is a growing likelihood that these natural disasters and physical and cyber warfare attacks will increase in frequency and lethality, increasingly impacting civilian infrastructure, due to global warming, increased civil unrest and global tensions as international competition increases.Imagine if two or more occur at the same time? Certainly, cyberattacks can be planned, rehearsed, and launched during the middle of one or more natural events. Up until now we have dealt with each of these events by trying to build systems that are better at detecting, preventing, and protecting us against them. Sadly, we have learned that these events cannot be totally prevented or stopped and have taken their toll.There is a rising chorus arguing that we must learn to, both individually and collectively, become more resilient in the face of these disastrous events. But how? The author believes we can learn to do better by becoming more resourceful, innovative, collaborative, and by taking a page from how we fight wars.This book details how these measures can be adapted to keep our systems operational and to rapidly reconstitute lost infrastructure.

By an award-winning technology reporter for the Wall Street Journal, a behind-the-scenes look at the manipulative tactics Facebook used to grow its business, how it distorted the way we connect online, and the company insiders who found the courage to speak out.