Here I am sort of magically back at Stanford University, which was where I had my interview with Henry Lowwood in A Life Well Wasted Episode 2. This is not a Life Well Wasted. A Life Well Wasted is a pretty big undertaking and I'm working hard on getting

a new episode out right now. But from time to time to sort of fill in the vast silence of my iTunes feed I'm going to release

Some shorter material or as in this case an uncut interview. If you like a life well wasted because

it's concise and edited and fast-paced just don't even listen to this. But I sort of decided to release this for the people

who found the segment with Lowwood, who is a curator of digital media at Stanford.

People who found that interesting,

I thought they would enjoy the whole interview.

We covered a lot of topics.

For the purpose of the episode,

I had to peel it back to a really short piece about a very specific subject

but if you have any interest in the problems of trying to save

games and digital culture in general for the future, you might find this interesting.

So with those caveats, I present to you the first a life well wasted B-side.

My name is Henry Lowood and my title is that I'm the curator for the history of science and Technology Collections at Stanford and also for the film

and media collections.

And I had a project called How They Got Game, which is on the history of digital games and simulations.

We're also doing a project that Library of Congress is funding called Preserving Virtual Worlds.

A lot of stuff.

It's quite a bit.

I noticed my blood pressure has been going up the last few years with all the pressure

of getting things done.

We have quite a bit going on. It's all fun though. If you're going to be

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