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Video Games are Man's Greatest Invention
Throughout time man has
invented, innovated, and dreamt big to lead us to our present day world. Is the
wheel the greatest invention, or the cell phone, or perhaps modern medicine?
No. Video Games are man’s greatest invention…easily.
Why can something so trivial
be as of importance and even greater than the wheel or even the smallpox
vaccine? The answer is a simple one but you must open your mind; video games
are responsible for creating more imaginative minds than any wheel or cell
phone have ever created. Modern technologies have allowed dreamers to create
their own 3d worlds, universes if you will, that are beginning to rival the
size of our own Planet. If God is thought to have the biggest imagination of
all, clearly he gave us the ability to think big, but we lacked the tools until
recently.
Early man showed signs of
artistic thought and thinking outside the box with pictures telling great
stories on the sides of ancient cave walls; would we have known about their
artistic side if the cave or material they wrote with didn’t exist? Of course
not, just like we wouldn’t know Mozart was a great piano player, or Michael Jordan
was the greatest basketball player ever if the piano or basketball were not
created. It is the inventions that allow people the most freedom to express
themselves; who they are, what they think, and what they dream about. Never in
the history of man has a tool allowed one to express themselves so emphatically
other than Video games.
In a world where we are
limited to 100 years or less, video games allow people to explore vast
universes, join hunting parties, make friendships, establish enemies, engage in
combat, lose battles, gain great victories, and still live to fight another
day. It is the greatest teacher of all that encourages trial and error, and
thinking outside the box. Has a wheel ever inspired a kid to dream of another
universe, or find out if he/she is a relentless explorer, an achiever, a
socialite, or perhaps even a great guild leader?
It is easy to look at a game
and judge it at face value, as just a fun toy to play with, while looking at
the wheel as the greatest architectural advancement in the modern world. I simply
ask what’s more important: To understand architecture and the intricacies of
the wheel and shapes or to be able to question the very thing discovered and
simulate your own virtual empire with all different shapes and sizes.
Imagine if our ancestors had
the ability to play Eve Online two-thousand years ago. They would be so excited
about space travel and the virtual space they played in, they would probably
have dreamt up a better space shuttle than we currently use. Only a handful of
people dream about actually entering space, and this is why Nasa isn’t
advancing as fast as it could. What if every child in
space exploration, in a 3d environment that would rival real life? The outcome
would be a society hell-bent on traveling outside our solar system. Those
children would grow into adults, adult explorers, leading the way to
exploration all because of a spark, a seed, of imagination implanted in their psyche
since they discovered their virtual space.
Is it any wonder why our
society craves violence and misery as we are exposed to it constantly as children?
We seek out in our adult life what we know to be true as children. Thankfully
video games are here to save our minds from “reality” and allow us once again
to think of possibilities and a world where boundaries become laughable and
society becomes free willed.
So log onto World Of
Warcraft, City of
perhaps Eve Online, without feeling guilty for expressing your inner self. The
wheel’s time to shine has come and passed…it is now merely a tool under my
chair to wheel me closer to my magical box that lets me think ever so freely.