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If gamers ran the world…

Following on to the recent Pew finding that 53% of all American adults play games, it looks like one of Obama’s key information planners is a dedicated World of Warcraft player, causing gamers to analyze his playing style for policy hints.  On a similar note, the essay “If Gamers Ran the World” is a thought-provoking article on what games have to teach, even if we don’t always agree with some of its more far-out conclusions.

December 9th, 2008 | Category: Society & Culture | Subscribe to comments | You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed

2 Responses to “If gamers ran the world…”

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    Tom Armitage:
    December 9th, 2008 at 1:29 pm

    I’m glad you enjoyed the article/talk; it was, if anything, meant to be more about the thoughts it provokes than the conclusions it comes to. It is deliberately slightly far-out; there was never going to be space to cover all the ground – and caveats – that I’d like to have done, and it felt better to just stick to my guns for the sake of rhetoric. It was, after all, for a general-public audience at a games festival. But thanks again for your link and kind words.

    Amazingly, I wasn’t aware of your book until now, so I shall have to check it out posthaste.

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    Ethan:
    December 11th, 2008 at 11:24 pm

    Thanks for checking in, it really was an interesting piece! Let us know what you think of the book, of course.

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