Video Games

After reading this article, I couldn’t help but chuckle to myself and think how crazy of a claim it made.  My opinion on this topic may be somewhat biased, considering that I was raised to believe that video games did nothing more than “fry your brain”.  My belief of this was somewhat changed after examining the facts of the article because they showed some impressive figures.  I applaud the efforts of the developers of these “games” but at the same time I don’t think this could be a lucrative method of ending world problems.

In impoverished countries that have no solid source of food and clean water, they live day-to-day and have little regard for much else.   With that being said, does it really seem plausible for these countries to receive state of the art video game technology before receiving basic human necessities? I mean let’s be honest here, people.  Even if this program was developed to the point where it actually worked, I feel that the world would have already solved this food crisis for third world countries.  It’s not a matter of funding per say, but one of priority. 

Even if our country adopted this system to help aid other countries, there would still have to be negotiating with the other target countries in order to put the program into effect.  Given that these countries have been digressing behind more fortunate ones for quite some time now, I don’t think that they would welcome the idea of investing in a mere “video game” to solve all of their problems.  Like I said before, I feel that a more cost-effective method would be found before implementing a video game to solve these serious issues.