Richard Carey On The Future Of Video and Serious Games Massively
multiplayer virtual world for teens Whyville Richard Carey has
posted earlier this week a must-read article, The Future of
Video Games: The Kids Are Alright, where he recaps “the long
strange trip it’s been, since video games were seen as nothing
more than a waste of time until recently when the conversation
has shifted to how Serious Games are an ideal learning
environment". Richard Carey also highlights the work of Dr. Jim
Bower, a computational neuroscientist at the University of Texas
and the CEO of Numedeon, publishers of the massively multiplayer
virtual world for teens Whyville.net. He was on a panel “The
Future of Video Games” and interviewed at the South By Southwest
festival earlier this year, portions of which were recently
published on the September 2010 issue of Discover Magazine, and
discussed why he thinks video games are good for learning.
Looking at whether video games are different from other forms of
play, Dr. Jim observes: “W