rowan
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I just found an absolutely brilliant article by jeremy clarkson from top gear, praising video games as the answer to world peace.
Here are a few quotes from it:
The full article can be found here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/c...icle5488548.ece
Here are a few quotes from it:
...we need to look at the world since Pong. This was the first commercially available video game; it featured two bats, a square ball and lots of irritating noises, it came along in 1972 and since then the western world has, for the most part, been at peace. We can therefore conclude that Pong and other games of its ilk ended the cold war because, for the first time in history, leaders had something better to do than rush about threatening to bash one another’s heads in.
When we look at the world’s trouble spots today – the Gaza Strip, Somalia, Sri Lanka and so on – we find large chunks of the population which have no possibility of playing Grand Theft Auto. This means they are bored.
The full article can be found here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/c...icle5488548.ece
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