Peace And Tranquility

this reading was semi interesting.. i would have prefered it if i wasbrought up by learning through the ways Papert suggested, but I am still glad i wasnt, because then i would probably be different than i am now. technology should be integrated more heavily into a childs development in this day and age, but i prefer that the bond of teacher to student wouldnt disappear because sometimes there is some things about life that can only be learned within the same species to another of the same species.

this essay was essentially about how video games have become an everyday part of our lives.

now i play games often, both computer and console,  so alot of this article was kinda known to me

i personally liked the sectio named “To Joust and Beyond”  jsut because it showed the history of the games starting with Space Wars then to Pong then to Space Invaders. and then suddenly from the space invaders it went to games with “game characters to have more realistic gestures and facial expressions. So basically this to this. im sure something happened in the middle of those two though.. haha.

a downside to all the positives said in this paper, is that people start thinking that game worlds are real, and the real world is fake. It is like a sentence i saw in SecondLife somewhere. A persons second life should not be more interactive and more entertaining that his/her real life. And to go to an extreme of this happening, just watch the movie gamer.