Dark Magic: Entertainment in the Era of Big Data

Hollywood has been trying to summon the old spirit of interactive narrative for a generation. In 1987, the Star Trek writers gave that spirit a name: the Holodeck. Massive, interactive rendering. Real physics. Real characters. Real stories. Ten years later Janet Murray outlined the path to make the Holodeck a reality. Fifteen years after that, we are still waiting... but not for long. Dark Magic pulls back the curtain on the possibilities of a new world of media and a new relationship between humans, stories, and our data crunching machine companions.