Introduction

Welcome to the "Web-enhanced" online portion of THE PLAYFUL WORLD. In this portion of the website you have total access to all of the articles and documents I turned up in my research - and plenty of interesting tidbits I found after I finished writing the book.

Using the Web-enhanced book is a breeze. The blue bar above this message portrays the five sections of THE PLAYFUL WORLD: Introduction, Intelligence, Activity, Presence, and Concrescence. If you click on any of these, you'll immediately go to a long set of links - which will show up on the left side of this page - parallelling the ideas as they're discussed in the text. For example, the first links in Intelligence involve the Furby, the first toy discussed in the book.

When you click on a subject, you'll see information about that subject on this side of the page, along with a link to another website, which will open in its own window. All you need to do is click on the link, and you'll be looking at whatever article or document crossed my path as I wrote the book.

Even better, you can add your own comments. If you've found something of interest to the readers of THE PLAYFUL WORLD, you can add a note, and even include your own links. This way the website can continue to grow well beyond my own abilities to keep it up-to-date. So please feel free to share what you've learned with the rest of us.

Have fun! If you have any questions, drop me a note at mark@playfulworld.com.

Thanks!

- Mark