cordis.europa.eu: Networked media - not all fun and games... well nearly

ICT Results was at large this week visiting the second annual NEM Summit in Saint Malo (FR), which was showcasing European know-how in networked media, the cool side of the internet. Despite its bill, it wasn’t all fun and games.

Networked media means a lot to very few people, probably just those in the business of making the future internet more than a compelling proposition. But to the billions of web users worldwide, networked media is the stuff that makes the web so great – the 3D games, the mobile streaming, the online services, the virtual office, the internet of things...

But as we enter the age of networks, we begin to understand that not all is as it seems, the division between work and leisure, serious and fun, is beginning to blur. And the networked media people are all for that.

Take Magnus Eriksson, a young tech scientist who works for the serious sounding Interactive Institute in Sweden. When you dig deeper you learn that he and the team in the ‘games section’ working on the TA2 project are cleverly blending the serious with the frivolous as they develop technology to nurture family-to-family relationships which are under increasing pressure in modern society.

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