Second day of GDC, I mostly missed everything. Getting up early, we had a phone meeting arranged on a joint Finnish-Swedish research project we have been planning with Interactive Institute. Then I spent some time planning an Academy of Finland project with couple of Finnish universities on agency in digitalizing cultures. Most of the time, I have been watching my Outlook crash (did that perhaps ten times in a row), missing the network connection, losing power, trying to access power source to reload batteries of a phone or computer, trying to move files, convert files from format to another etc. When I tried to hear Ted Castronova’s talk, it had been swapped with Ben Sawyer’s one, and had already taken place in morning. So missed that, too. Ended up to audience for a panel on serious games which Henry Jenkins was heading. I suppose it was interesting and relevant one in this context, but I realized I was becoming bored and impatient; to have the US defence budget as the seemingly sole and main source for academic research funding just seems so perverse for an European. Sorry, cannot help it.
Back into hotel, to load the batteries of the laptop, this time. And I thought I had an extra, long-life battery.
frans goes blog 