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"If gamers ran the world"
Lithium | 12:33 AM on 01.10.2009 9 comments


edit: what the crap happened to the post structuring? its all weird now :/

I was listening to the latest episode of Spark on CBC radio (it's pretty much the canadian equal to NPR) and
they ran a segment entitled "If gamers ran the world"

"This afternoon, I interviewed Tom Armitage. He's a software designer who recently came to our attention
because of a talk he gave recently, called "If Gamers Ran the World." In it, he puts forth the idea that in
another 10 years, leaders who are the same age as Barack Obama or British Conservative Party leader
David Cameron are now, will be children of the 1970s, and as such, more than likely the first leaders who
grew up with video games as a core part of their way of interact with the world around them. What would
that mean for how they would behave as leaders?"

you can listen to the full interview by clicking
here

after listening to this it got me thinking about how the technology generation can run the world differently

I would like to hope that our generation will be more open to new technologies avoid scapegoating new
things, espesalily since we lived through the whole video game violence thing, but then again, their
generation had to go through the scapegoating of rock and roll, and they don't seem to be able to draw any
parallels...

Anyways, how do you think the younger generation(s) will run the world differently? (if anything changes
anyways)



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HydroTonix's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/10/2009 01:14
HydroTonix
Lol kevin perrera sucks now man!

Actually he occasionally makes me laugh, but only occasionally.
garison's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/10/2009 01:19
garison
Kevin Perrera? Lol.

Interesting, I think that technology issues would get much more attention when the younger generation gets a hold of the government. I can't wait personally.

Also, I don't know why Destructoid sometimes does that with the weird spacing issues. I have had problems with it in the past as well. For some reason it only happens on my longer blogs that I actually want people to read.
Aziel13's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/10/2009 01:42
Aziel13
if we ruled the world there be none of you left
Qraze's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/10/2009 01:49
Qraze
g4 sucks, they devote one hour a day to video game outta 24 and if there is a good release, one and a half maybe. in the other 23 hours, they show pee wee's big adventure and time cop. not cyborg, not bloodsport, time fucking cop .
Qraze's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/10/2009 01:50
Qraze
fuck g4
Half left's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/10/2009 07:26
Half left
Are you using chrome?

For some reason chrome tends to make the format spaz out a bit.
Lithium's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/10/2009 08:33
Lithium
@ Half left

yeah, i use chrome.

@ Qraze, Hydrotonix

I'm confused, where did you guys get g4 and kevin perrera from? unless I missed somthing they dont have anything to do with this post.
Cowboy TTop's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/10/2009 11:23
Cowboy TTop
If gamers ran the world, all conflicts and disagreements would be decided upon by playing WarGames, and maybe a few rounds of Street Fighter Alpha 2.
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