Synthesized answer
The provided passages do not directly state what questions remain unanswered in the book "Software Takes Command."
However, the passages do mention questions that the book aims to answer. These include: * How do the interfaces and tools of contemporary media software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Maya, Final Cut, and After Effects shape the visual aesthetics of contemporary media and design? [1] * What happens to the idea of a 'medium' after previously media-specific tools have been simulated and extended in software? [1] * Is it still meaningful to talk about different mediums at all? [1] * What was the thinking and motivations of people who in the 1960s and 1970s created concepts and practical techniques that underlie contemporary media software? [2]
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e contemporary media software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Maya, Final Cut and After Effects? How do their interfaces and tools shape the visual aesthetics of contemporary media and design? What happens to the idea of a 'medium' after previously media-specific tools have been simulated and extended in software? Is it still meaningful to talk about different mediums at all? Lev Manovich answers these questions and supports his theoretical arguments by detailed analysis of key media applications such as Photoshop and After Effects, popular web services such as Google Earth, and the projects…
Title: Software Takes Command by Lev Manovich Description: This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Software has replaced a diverse array of physical, mechanical, and electronic technologies used before 21st century to create, store, distribute and interact with cultural artifacts. It has become our interface to the world, to others, to our memory and our imagination - a universal language through which the world speaks, and a universal engine on which the world runs. What electricity and combustion…