Comment Re:Even the Germans... (Score 1) 207
My experience as well.
My experience as well.
It could be the "devil music" they listened to. Or the movies they watched. Or their parenting. Or genetics.
Correlation != Causation
"Notably, extended play has been observed to depress activity in the frontal cortex of the brain which controls executive thought and function, produces intentionality and the ability to plan sequences of action, and is the seat of self-reflection, discipline and self-control."
I find this interesting because I grew up playing a lot of computer games (probably too much), yet I was, and am still today, basically the poster boy for self-reflection, discipline and self-control. To a point where it has actually hampered me and I've had to work on diminishing those traits so I can live in a better and more carefree way.
So if this statement is correct, perhaps computer games was a much needed way for me to take a break from myself, maybe other kids have the same need?
I'd like to see how video games depress the frontal cortex but tv and movies don't. You pretty much have to actively be thinking and planning to play most video games, I'd expect them to improve these skills. Passive entertainment like tv and movies, not so much.
What makes you think we couldn't offer it stimuli? That would be one way to learn a hell of a lot about how it works. There's your learned component.
Also, who's to say we couldn't mimic the genetic component too? There is nothing magical about dna that makes it impossible to simulate. Although the whole protein folding thing seems rather difficult atm, there is no reason to say that we couldn't have that problem solved in 10 years.
WinMe was based on Win95/98 code, Win2k was based on NT code. The 95 legacy died with ME (thank god), so it's not really like me -> 2k at all.
I like what google has been doing. I sometimes don't think that their goal is even to make super successful technologies sometimes as it is to push the internet forward by showing what can be done with it. It would make sense too, they don't get money from giving away free email and office software, they make money from getting more people onto the web. The more developed the web is, the more pull there is for people to get on it and see their ads. Even if it fails, just by the nature of it being ambitious should get others to emulate it, hopefully with some great new ideas of their own.
I think that he was looking for more solutions to a problem that he had little idea how to address effectively. Search engines only work so much as you know what words to put in, and even then there are often better solutions if you had known more.
Also, internet ads are sooooo 10 years ago. l2adp
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. - Edmund Burke
