pandering to the gaming crowd (Score 2)

This article reads more like an election speech than an essay written to elicit new thoughts. You pose the question - "who in our culture is preparing for the radical changes in imagination about to be unleashed?" In reply, I ask what radical changes in imagination have been unleashed by the last ten years of game play? There are benefits when we can look at more sophisticated home computers and graphics chips that were (in part) developed to meet the needs of gamers. The creativity and imagination unleashed have been from the designers and developers - not the players. What evidence is there that playing these games benefits the player in any way. The phrase "get a life" came into use for people such as these.