A group of game designers says taht video-game technology can help save the world by raising humanitarian awareness. The creators of free educational games such as Darfur is Dying and PeaceMaker met with humanitarian activists during the third-annual Games for Change conference in New York.
When I was in college, a neighbor in the fraternity house had a game on his Mac where one played the Prime Minister of Israel trying to bring about Middle East peace. Nuclear war, terrorism, arms embargoes and all the rest were part of the equation. It wasn’t an easy game. It sounds like it was a precursor to the modern Peacemaker.
It sounds like this was a pretty interesting conference.
You can check out Jonah’s interview by looking up the 7 o’clock hour of the Bill Handel show for KFI AM 640 on Tuesday, June 27 either on the KFI site or via the podcast directory in iTunes.
The most amazing discussions I’ve ever had about what the Declaration of Independence and constitution really mean were with Egyptians in Cairo, who all but wept talking about a kind of freedom they understood better than most who are born into it ever will, and which they had no expectation of ever having for their countrymen.
The least we can do as Americans, besides vote, is to be able to pass the immigration tests ourselves.
