Below are a number of quotes, tweets and pictures from Will Wright’s speech at 2010 Engage Expo.  Figure’d I post these for you guys so you can have somewhat of a ‘live’ feed. 😉  I’ll keep it updated constantly until his presentation is over – so make sure you refresh the page every now and then!

*Update* think that’s is a wrap.  Pity that we don’t get to see/hear what his project is for the Stupid Fun Club, but he always has interesting things to say 🙂

  • liamom Will Wright founder of Sims at #engageexpo keynote:’toys can expand our imaginations and change our future’
  • HopeLab Will Wright: “ask not what toys can do for you, ask what you can do for toys”
  • MargaretWallace Will Wright: toys that have memory of actual experiences are the future. Also predicts the will interact with other toys in shared memories.
  • 360Kid “everytime computers seem 2 advance & appear 2 display traits of intelligence, we redefine what intelligence means” Wright
  • MargaretWallace Will Wright: future of toys – networked toys, maybe biochemical or nanotechnology. Toys will be more intelligent.
  • wallacelinden Will Wright: play infusing the world around us, virtual becoming real – in part via #AR.
  • wonderlandblog Will Wright: virtual doesn’t mean anything to kids anymore. Their virtual is their real, too.
  • wonderlandblog Will Wright: Jin from Lost’s wikipedia entry is longer than Barack Obama’s.
  • jnusser Social interaction today is getting us closer to hive minds – will wright
  • wallacelinden Will Wright: computers not so hot for #AI, much better for harvesting human intelligence.
  • chriswandrew Google works because they harvest human intelligence – will wright
  • wonderlandblog Will Wright: Check out the McMaster-Carr catalog. It’s the catalog of robot parts.
  • jgatza subversive play goes around the rules…note: Barbie’s flight suit is not blast resistant – Will Wright
  • wallacelinden Hot Wheels are particle accelerators for little kids. Will Wright
  • HopeLab Will Wright – funny, frank, insightful, explains more data not always helpful, eg do rearview cameras really improve your parking?
  • wallacelinden Will Wright: most of our intelligence is pre-conscious, telling us few things to tune into out of vast stream of data our senses take in.
  • 360Kid “When I was growing up, I played with models. I love models.” – Will Wright
  • HopeLab Will Wright: games as metaphor – Sims = dollhouse – makes sense!
  • jgatza Play builds imagination. Games Test imagination. – Will Wright
  • HopeLab Will Wright: play/games powerful life tools to teach categorization, causality, behavior – from animals to humans
  • wallacelinden Will Wright: Moore’s Law impacting toy industry along with everything else.
  • 360Kid Will Wright was a big fan of all things space, James Bond, chemistry sets and Martel’s VertiBird
  • wallacelinden Will Wright: I spend most of my money on #Amazon and #McMaster-Carr — buying robot parts and other mechanisms.
  • jgatza “I’m not an expert, but an articulate consumer” – Will Wright

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