Review_Hamlet on the holodeck

I've just finished reading the book J murray’s ‘Hamlet on the Holodeck’ : the future of narrative in cyber space.

As this is introduced as a narration guide for Game, Cyber drama storyteller and New media reviewer This is telling that the future of narration structure will not change on the one hand, but interactively via computer digital technology. I’m not sure that I have fully understood this book due to the unexpected amount of text with no diagrams and also containing too many technical terms so that I kept jumping from the book to a dictionary. However, I was interested in storytelling and this book focuses on ‘What is story telling’ and Murray wants to define narrative as giving a context in which we can explore.

In the beginning written stories were just text, but this evolved into todays hyper-text languages of the digital age. Digital media can now combine visual, sound and text so that it can be multi-media. Digital media can also interact with people as it has a non-linear structure with the appropriate tools to connect them. I think the role of story telling is still important for the widely developing digital media technology.

‘There are not two more difficult things to predict in this world than the future of art and the future of software. These vision of the future can only be speculations, extrapolations from the current environment, which is shifting even as I write.’
(J murray Hamlet on the Holodeck P.284)
His final comments make me think a lot. That the idea is natural common sense. But, at the same time we frequently forget its significants.