{"id":8204,"date":"2005-04-27T08:06:32","date_gmt":"2005-04-27T15:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/04\/27\/perspective-23.html"},"modified":"2005-04-27T08:06:32","modified_gmt":"2005-04-27T15:06:32","slug":"perspective_23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/27\/perspective_23.html","title":{"rendered":"Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

What if video games had come before books? How would people react<\/a> toward the latter taking mind-share and time away from the former?<\/p>\n

Books are also tragically isolating. While games have for many years engaged the young in complex social relationships with their peers, building and exploring worlds together, books force the child to sequester him or herself in a quiet space, shut off from interaction with other children. These new ‘libraries’ that have arisen in recent years to facilitate reading activities are a frightening sight: dozens of young children, normally so vivacious and socially interactive, sitting alone in cubicles, reading silently, oblivious to their peers.<\/p>\n

Marvelous. And (from the perspective of how people would doubtless react) all too believable.<\/p>\n

(via Kottke<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What if video games had come before books? How would people react toward the latter taking mind-share and time away from the former? Books are also tragically isolating. 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