Title: vacuous techno boosterism
Product review: If this is hi-tech, then call me a Luddite.It never ceases to amaze me how quickly people jettison their critical faculties when talking about hi-tech. The author thinks everything to do with hi-tech is mind blowingly awesome.I too thought video games were great and encouraged my son to play them. He now resents me deeply for over emphasizing them.The thing that really irritates me about this book is how fluffy it is. How little hard fact is actually contained in it. All the rest of the this meagre 200 page book is padded out with tons and tons of the most outlandish, often sickeningly so, hyperbole. As a sometime software engineer I was hoping for a few nitty gritty details of the real design and coding work that went into producing these games. Or some war stories about young companies on the make and jockeying for position in the market. Nada.If you like "Wired" magazine, you'll probably enjoy this.
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