Davide E. Agosta

Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari

Before Google, Yahoo and even Apple, before the Silicon Valley cliché of informal dress code, skateboards running the corridors and wild creativity became commonplace, one company embodied the digital economy lifestyle and business style: the one firm coming out of the Age of Aquarius was Atari. The story of Atari is two-thirds the story of Nolan Bushnell, founder and visionary, and one-third the first and probably biggest boom and bust of the new economy some 20 years before the new economy even existed. Atari was showing that technology is cool, way before the personal computer revolution took place and they were reaching out to an ever-growing audience with something that is still cool today: video games. Atari literally introduced the digital world to the mass consciousness.

8 Bit Generation: The Commodore Wars

The rise and fall of Commodore computers in the 70s and 80s as described by the people who created the companies and technologies.

Bike Roulette

A young boy is riding his bike on a burning asphalt track, killing his time and heat with less and less funny, clever and playful pastimes. Challenge to boredom gets more and more dangerous and dull. Bad omens are coming out as the boy’s fate meets that one of a mysterious man, who’s driving his car on the same asphalt track. Boredom and loneliness have chosen their victim and torturer. It’s a challenge where cards rest covered until fate chooses only one. A fate that is as ordinary as summer heat and evil in a soul can be.

Bike Roulette

A young boy is riding his bike on a burning asphalt track, killing his time and heat with less and less funny, clever and playful pastimes. Challenge to boredom gets more and more dangerous and dull. Bad omens are coming out as the boy’s fate meets that one of a mysterious man, who’s driving his car on the same asphalt track. Boredom and loneliness have chosen their victim and torturer. It’s a challenge where cards rest covered until fate chooses only one. A fate that is as ordinary as summer heat and evil in a soul can be.

Bike Roulette

A young boy is riding his bike on a burning asphalt track, killing his time and heat with less and less funny, clever and playful pastimes. Challenge to boredom gets more and more dangerous and dull. Bad omens are coming out as the boy’s fate meets that one of a mysterious man, who’s driving his car on the same asphalt track. Boredom and loneliness have chosen their victim and torturer. It’s a challenge where cards rest covered until fate chooses only one. A fate that is as ordinary as summer heat and evil in a soul can be.

Bike Roulette

A young boy is riding his bike on a burning asphalt track, killing his time and heat with less and less funny, clever and playful pastimes. Challenge to boredom gets more and more dangerous and dull. Bad omens are coming out as the boy’s fate meets that one of a mysterious man, who’s driving his car on the same asphalt track. Boredom and loneliness have chosen their victim and torturer. It’s a challenge where cards rest covered until fate chooses only one. A fate that is as ordinary as summer heat and evil in a soul can be.