I was thinking about the early career of Bill Gates, and given the timing it’s possible that no 20-year-old in human history up to that point had spent as much time with computers as he had.
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Plausibly there should be 100,000 kids being given at least as much immersion in VR as the football team gets in football.
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If I wanted to match the vibe, I’d keep in mind that pre-PC, computers were impersonal and kind of sinister/authoritarian. So the modern equivalent might be letting my daughters pilot an Anduril drone.
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idk - I started playing videogames when I was 4 (here's a pic of 7yo me playing HoMM3) -- as a result I was addicted to them from until I was 17 and did almost nothing productive in all of these years my dad is a programmer and tried to encourage me to code for years to no availpic.twitter.com/3yFA8S1JM2
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In my case was into games from the time I touched an IBM 486 computer for the first time, and eventually wanting to make games myself led me to RPG Maker and eventually to regular programming.
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I have a belief (still working on finding backup data) that esports will be huge, countrywide activity in the future. Agree that we should be spending more time in schools on it, but perhaps that might be self-defeating
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will be?
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