On a flight across the Atlantic today I decided to rewatch Mary Poppins. It is a film that I revisit often, but I had not seen it in several years.<\/p>\n
As it happens, one of the talks I will be giving this week is on the future of interactive cinema. And I realized, watching this Walt Disney movie for children that is now exactly half a century old, that it has much to say for our time.<\/p>\n
The vision of being able to paint a picture, and then simply jump into that image to visit a desired alternate reality, is one that still, after fifty years, speaks to the child within us.<\/p>\n
The difference is that now we suspect that soon we may be able to make it a reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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