How does the moment in computing Stewart Brand covers compare to how we use our networks and devices today? How do you think the MIT researchers’ hopes and anxieties have played out in the time since?
Jarrett Kobek describes the ZX Spectrum as an open platform, one that teenagers were able to develop for. In what ways are some contemporary game platforms open or closed? What obstacles do or don’t exist to a teenager living at home becoming a professional game developer like Matthew Smith or John George Jones?
Over the last fifty years, how has technology changed — and failed to change — who is developing games?
