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Jane McGonigal: Gamers Have Spent 5.93M Years Playing WoW

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Jane McGonigal, author of Reality Is Broken, points to the 3 billion hours the world invests every week in online gaming as a clear indicator that many people are not being sufficiently challenged in their day-to-day lives.

"5.93 million years is how long people have spent tackling unnecessary obstacles in World of Warcraft," says McGonigal. "We've spent as long playing World of Warcraft as we have evolving as a human species."
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TreeLuvBurdpu

Posted: 02.04.11, 01:14 AM

5.93 million is measured in man-years. In the email it says we have spent more in WoW than the rest of human evolution. This is true only if human evolution is measured in Earth-years. Why does an intelligent website like Fora change the unit of measure in mid-statement? It is not by accident, I can assure you. It is a deliberate attempt to show that we are wasting time with the internet and internet games. This is surprising. They must have little knowledge of the development of the internet and computers in general. Much of it was driven, and paid for, by games. As was much math, logic, language and music development. Game theory drives economic theory. Why belittle the games?

DesDownUnder

Posted: 02.02.11, 06:00 AM

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Craig Velenski

Posted: 01.24.11, 10:04 AM

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