RE: A response to Walt

["Jason Joel Thompson" <jason@wildghost.com>]

Hi Walt.


> To Jason's and Brandon's implications that theorizing is useless
> relative to
> practice: judging from the lack of discernable improvement in IS since
> about1980, I could suggest that practice is pretty frapping
> useless too. I
> hedge my bets by participating in both. But on a mailing list I can't
> implement, I can only theorize.

Yes, we need to theorize.  We need to identify problems and envision
solutions.  But again, I'm not against theorizing, just against eureka
declarations in the absence of working models.

Or, to put it more bluntclearly: If you know how interactive drama is going
to work, then please build a working system.



My prediction:


We will take little steps.  We will build systems that empower individual
humans as story-tellers.  We will wrap them in increasingly clever
algorithms.  Some filmmakers and some game designers will get together and,
using existing tools, popularize the first mass market implementation.
People jostle for position.  VR happens.  AI happens.  There, now we've got
this interactive story-telling thing licked, next please.



jason.joel.thompson