The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC.
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Quoted in Seth Schiesel, Microsoft Unveils Games For Its New Xbox 360 The New York Times (2005-10-06)John D. Carmack
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In a technocracy, tools play a central role in the thought-world of the culture. Everything must give way, in some degree, to their development. The social and symbolic worlds become increasingly subject to the requirements of that development. Tools are not integrated into the culture; they attack the culture. They bid to become the culture. As a consequence, tradition, social mores, myth, politics, ritual, and religion have to fight for their lives...
Neil Postman
Originally, I wanted a machine that would cost $100. My idea was to spend nothing on the console technology so all the money could be spent on improving the interface and software. If we hadn't used NAND flash memory [to store data such as games and photos] and other pricey parts, we might have succeeded.
Shigeru Miyamoto
We lived more by the sun than by the clock, but I did own a clock. It was an eight-day windup console clock which I kept on the mantel in the living room, and it was the only timepiece in the house that worked anymore.
James Howard Kunstler
Cultures may be classed into three types: tool-using cultures, technocracies, and technopolies. ...until the seventeenth century, all cultures were tool-users. ...the main characteristic of all tool-using cultures is that their tools were largely invented to do two things: to solve specific and urgent problems of physical life, such as in the use of waterpower, windmills, and the heavy-wheeled plow; or to serve the symbolic world of art, politics, myth, ritual, and religion, as in the construction of castles and cathedrals and the development of the mechanical clock. In either case, tools (...were not intended to attack) the dignity and integrity of the culture into which they were introduced. With some exceptions, tools did not prevent people from believing in their traditions, in their God, in their politics, in their methods of education, or in the legitimacy of their social organization...
Neil Postman
"I don’t really go to the movies. I hear about the trailers (that feature Celldweller music) but I don’t often see them myself. I’ve never really been a starstruck individual so it’s not really a big deal to me. I am fortunate for what I’ve been able to secure in the Film/TV/Video game world for sure, but I don’t overhype it and get wrapped up in what I’ve done but instead, what I have yet to do. I don’t even own a single video game console. I’ve never seen any of the games I’m in."
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