At first, it seems that this video, a smartly illustrated lecture by Professor Philip G. Zimbardo, has nothing to be with virtual worlds. It’s about time preferences in different cultures, countries and even cities. But here it comes: it’s also about different ways to experience time between generations. It seems that in the US one child drops out of school every nine seconds. One of the problems: school is boring. By the time a boy is 21, he has spent 10,000 hours playing video games.
Those games tend to become even more exciting, as the industry develops surround 3D systems etc. I guess some would say this is over-stimulating the brain, others will applaud this media evolution. It seems youngsters find the analogue classrooms very boring compared to the games and the web. A traditional classroom is boring, you sit there passively and you control nothing at all – the hidden but most important lesson of school is how to endlessly delay gratification.
So what do you think about technology’s potential for re-wiring young brains?
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