I can honestly say that I’ve never heard such positive opinions of video games, until I watched Jane McGonigal’s TED Talk. Her insight was very convincing and I admired her great confidence, but I was left with a few unanswered questions. Certainly, solving the world’s greatest problems through video games would be phenomenal, but what about all of the negative health risks associated with logging those numerous hours of gaming? Recently, there has been research done correlating video games with a high incidence of rickets. Not to mention the great number of other associated health issues, including carpal tunnel, mental health diseases, and cardiovascular difficulties.
http://metro.co.uk/2010/01/22/video-gaming-leads-to-surge-in-rickets-53005/. February 25, 2016
McGonigal, Jane (2010). Gaming can make a better world. TED Talk. Recorded at TED2010, February 2010. Long Beach, CA.
Haha. That is true. This is the first time i have heard that kind of positive opinion of playing video games. Video game have been grown up and there is a lot of competition going on every year. Last year DOTA2 competition have a huge price pool. The price pool is over 15 million. For a video game i think that is a lot. This means a lot of people care about that game and a lot of people want to support the players that play this game professional. But in the TED talk she said that playing video game can save world, i was so shocked at that time. But after finishing watching the whole video it does make some sense.