Diegetics

they make excellent remote operators of drones and orbiting death stars....

society as a klein bottle that creates remote control by remote control...

a mobius strip escher drawing that becomes its own golem.


"I don't know whether the world is run by smart men who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Twain

The benefit of video-games is cognitive skills that they would not otherwise have.

Look at the video-game Portal whose ad-campaign is, "Think with Portals", this provides the players of the game with a way to challenge their assumptions on how they model 3 dimensional space. I have played with it, not in terms of going through the actual game, but in terms of creating infinite loops and other such things and then falling through them and trying to target things in the room. I could feel the part of my brain that understood this as an action as opposed to simply as an idea.

This is what Virtual Reality AKA video games does for people.

It should not be used at the expense of physical activity though. My daughter at 4 plays a lot of video games, but she is a highly active young girl.

Not all are into that long, dark night. Anyway, the problem has been recognised for awhile and ;>.......

New Killer Drones Could be Piloted by Teenagers


www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/10/armed-shadows/