[lbo-talk] Liberate Doug from Old Fogeyism! - was/ videogames

[Jerry Monaco]

On 8/11/06, Jerry Monaco <monacojerry at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/11/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> > The Times, whose growing coverage of video game culture is especially
> > impressive when you consider that anyone who plays video games is
> > functionally illiterate...
>

This is from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists:
http://www.thebulletin.org/print.php?art_ofn=ja06schollmeyer_100

"_Games get serious_

If you think video games are child's play, meet the growing community
of scientists, policy makers, and game developers who beg to differ.

By Josh Schollmeyer

           July/August 2006  pp. 34-39 (vol. 62, no. 4) (c) 2006
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists "

I also remember Stephen Jay Gould's article on the movie Jurassic Park
and technology in The New York Review of Books.  (Dinomania
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2483 ) which points out that games,
entertainment, recreation, push important technological change and
help in the construction of interesting thought models.