What the Wii ???

As we come to the end of our reading materials, we read one of the most relevant articles. Relevant to college students that is. well. it's relevant to more people than college students. but yea. Jane McGonigal claims in this article that, "Video games can save the world." She includes the 10,000 hours theory that if someone were to spend 10,000 hours on any one subject then he/she will become a master at it. McGonigal gives her idea that if people would play so and so more billion hours of video games per year than we will be able to conquer real world problems. She states there are some games that were made and helped raise some money but never really progressed much because they were simply not fun. The main thing that I don't understand is at what point do we stop playing video games and actually do something? She talks about how the whole world needs to be playing video games... and it seems she thinks we should never stop because ... (through these video games we will be able to solve world problems like climate change, hunger, world peace) uhhhh wha? She just doesn't state so clearly as to when we will all do this. At what point do the gamers of the world do something positive for the world? And so where does that leave us non-gamers? are we just to standby and let the gamers... save the planet? hmmm what if we want to help? well, we obviously won't be as qualified to help save the world as gamers. She has a decent argument. yeaaa people play video games and they learn team work and to never give up... and they figure out ways to complete the video game... get that "epic win."Well, in video games, you get unlimited tries to win. with life. you don't get as much. not quite...