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April 24, 2005

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When Kids Used to Play Video Games

I was going to post a link to Steven Johnson’s excellent NYT Magazine article called “Watching TV Makes You Smarter.” Now I’ll up the ante by also posting a link to a thought experiment on his blog where he asks what today’s video game detractors would have said if video games had come before books. Both well worth reading.

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Posted April 24, 2005 at 5:03 | Comments (0) | Permasnark
File under: Briefly Noted, Video Games
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