Playing games is part of being human. So is imagination. The things about computer games is the ability to make many many games, and to made imagination virtually real.
Imagination. The ability to make pictures in your head. For a long time, text was the only way to get ideas transmitted across distance. Images, such as public spectacles and public buildings and stained glass windows had to be viewed on location.
Computer games have turned this around. The revolution started with newspapers and their ability to reproduce photos. Then we figured out how to show a series of images - movies. Then with computers, we can actually interact with the image and change it in real time.
Does this empower human imagination or enslave it? Have we restricted what we can imagine or opened up new ways of thinking?
Well, simply put, yes. Both are true. There are possibilities and dangers, but more on this later.
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