Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Video Games: ALL about communication

Video games have been the driving force behind the development of computer graphics. The more elaborate the graphics of the game, the more engrossed the players tend to become with it. They serve different purposes, from education to entertainment. Many times, video games are designed to parallel education with entertainment. The explosion of video games and development of computer graphics over the last decade has opened a whole new audience to this field. These types of games have become a popular educational outlet for small children (even toddlers).

The world's first networked video game is called Space War, which was popularized in the 1960s. So, video games are not a new phenomenon. They are just a new revolution. Our society has reached the point that some computers can outsmart humans. People are fallible by human error, but computers are programmed by people. The relationship between human intelligence and computers (artificial intelligence) is ironic.

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