Mar 6 2011: Freedom to meet, assemble. interact & communicate to the others in your environment, before becoming your fundamental right, has been a condition, requirement of becoming a human being. Brave & intelligent Maugli was not developed as a human since he was limited to collaborate & interact to fauna members only. That is, interaction is first a neurological & psychological requirement, and 2nd - an ethical/political/legislative value.
Humans go on developing after they have already become human beings, and Internet is a medium for interactions in both close vicinity and in global. It is good to be global, but it is not psychologically essential. Anyway, Internet is a useful tool even for all those who are not apt to be global. Internet might radically change, might lose its name, but the vehicle for interaction & collaboration will be urgently needed in every ongoing generation.
To sum up, a tool to do local & global interactions is 1st a condition and 2nd (3rd, 4th, etc.) a medium.
Mar 4 2011: Has anyone given a due attention to the fact that we are having the FIRST generation of adults (mostly young, but with children) who keep playing EN MASSE the games they used to play in their teens (well, maybe not always the same games, but the same type of games)? Civilization has changed: the time given to work (or college studies, or business, etc.) plus homework does not cover a full non-sleepy week, and spare time can be given to a hobby, mainly to gameplaying, three billion hours a week.
Thus, gaming can be seen not entirely as a personal dimension, it is a gift from the whole civilization.
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A comment on Conversation: Should the internet be a fundamental right?
Humans go on developing after they have already become human beings, and Internet is a medium for interactions in both close vicinity and in global. It is good to be global, but it is not psychologically essential. Anyway, Internet is a useful tool even for all those who are not apt to be global. Internet might radically change, might lose its name, but the vehicle for interaction & collaboration will be urgently needed in every ongoing generation.
To sum up, a tool to do local & global interactions is 1st a condition and 2nd (3rd, 4th, etc.) a medium.
A comment on Conversation: We spend 3 billion hours a week as a planet playing videogames. Is it worth it? How could it be MORE worth it?
Thus, gaming can be seen not entirely as a personal dimension, it is a gift from the whole civilization.