Re: near-anything boxes allowed to be in the hands of the public?

From: GBurch1@aol.com
Date: Sun Mar 12 2000 - 09:44:59 MST


In a message dated 3/11/00 10:55:29 AM Central Standard Time, spike66@ibm.net
writes:

> Right! You almost said it here Greg. *Why* do you think this attitude
> has finally changed? It because we have good battle simulators running
> on our computers. Even ordinary proles like us can get to be pretty
> good fighter pilots, strategy wise, from running these cheap games on
> a cheap computer. This is the invention that changed everything. spike

Yep, and the "fighter jock" of 2020 will bear a much greater resemblence to
young video-gamers than Tom Cruise in "Top Gun". As much as I DON'T like
"Ender's Game" (for many reasons), Card got that part right.

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