Commentary
Ray Bradbury, one of America’s finest writers of the 20th century, once described video games as “a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.” Humans with “real brains,” he asserted, don’t waste their time on such trivial activities. Tens of millions of Americans would probably beg to differ. Today, rather incredibly, 214 million Americans are active gamers.
Some 50 million of these are children. Video games rewire the brain. In other words, they have the power to change humans. This means they have the power to change human civilization and to change the world as we know it. Moreover, as this piece demonstrates, video games are no longer just a cultural issue, but an international political issue….