Wii Shall Overcome

In the article Wii Shall Overcome talks about the positives of the gaming world. Jane McGonigal is Americas next guru of gaming. McGonigal believes that video games can fix the planet's toughest problems. She even purposes the bold idea that kids spend an average of more than 10,000 hours fiddling with consoles and controllers before they turn 21, could wind up stopping climate change with their PlayStations! This might be a very bold statement but shes trying to get her point across that there is a lot to learn from video games and how it opens up the minds to new ideas and lets us as "gamer's" think differently. She also takes the aspect of "insisting that by giving us a sense of accomplishment, meaning, and productivity, games are creating a new breed of "super-empowered hopeful individuals, poised to transition from saving virtual worlds to saving the real one. From my aspect of this situation i think this idea is a little far fetched. Just because a 6 year old can drive a car in a video game does not mean they can drive a car in real life. People can "save the world" or "find a cure for cancer" in a video game but they cant in real life. Video games have it set up so you can achieve your task and get that "epic-win" therefore you don't get bored with the game. But real life does not care if you get bored or not. I understand her idea and the direction she is going with it but i am not buying her idea.