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On the surface, kids learn to do things –
to fly airplanes, to drive fast cars, to play with brio toys, to be theme park
operators, war fighters, civilization builders and veterinarians. But on deeper
levels they learn infinitely more: to take in information from many sources and
make decisions quickly; to deduce a game’s rules from playing rather than by
being told; to create strategies for overcoming obstacles; to understand complex
systems through experimentation. And, increasingly, they learn to collaborate
with others. Many adults are not aware that games have long ago passed out of
the single-player isolation shell imposed by lack of networking, and have gone
back to being the social medium they have always been – on a worldwide scale.
Massively Multiplayer games such as EverQuest now have hundreds of thousands of
people playing simultaneously, collaborating nightly in clans and guilds.