Showing posts with label Tycoon Entrepreneur Impresario. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tycoon Entrepreneur Impresario. Show all posts

Friday, September 9, 2011

The Player

In full.

Great discussion of Nolan Bushnell's (founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese) early career, touching upon subjects of  consumer electronics and recreational robots, the possible social purpose of video games, the economic links between pizza parlors, midways and video game consuls, and divorced, single parents in the 1980s.

See also:
Androbot on the old robots page. A brief profile of Nolan Bushell's short lived personal robot company, in the eighties.

Monday, August 2, 2010

Mark Grief, Walt Disney

Tinkering, from the London Review of Books.

Ostensibly a book review of three recent Walt Disney biographies, Mark Grief's essay is a fascinating survey of the psychological and cultural factors making up this uniquely 20th century entertainment industry giant. Herein, Disney is described as something of an old-fashioned, crafts-oriented artist, a hard-headed capitalist, a disappointed socialist, a daffy technical innovator, a theme park impresario, a futurist, and the prototypical American entrepreneur.

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