Como los #videojuegos estan cambiando la educación ... y la economía

Hoy traemos a este espacio a dos enlaces sobre los Videojuegos .. la primera es una infografía de Online Colleges que se titula : "how videogames are changing the education" ... el segundo es un enlace a un artículo de The Wall Street Journal, escrito por  ANDY KESSLER titulado

How Videogames Are Changing the Economy
From Silicon Valley to China to media, they are leading the next productivity revolution. So hug a geek today.

This fall, the
Chinese National University of Defense Technology announced that it had
created the world's fastest supercomputer, Tianhe-1A, which clocks in at
2.5 petaflops (or 2,500 trillion operations) per second. This is the
shape of the world to come—but not in the way you might think.
Powering the Tianhe-1A are some three
million processing cores from Nvidia, the Silicon Valley company that
has sold hundreds of millions of graphics chips for videogames. That's
right—every time someone fires up a videogame like Call of Duty or World
of Warcraft, the state of the art in technology advances. Hug a geek
today.
What a switch. For centuries, the military has driven technology
forward, fostering new waves of industrialization and corporate use.
James Watt's steam engine was perfected with the help of a cannon-boring
tool. Computers were created during World War II to calculate artillery
firing and to break codes. The military bought half of all
semiconductors until the late 1960s. Even the first global-positioning
systems (GPS) were funded by Congress, not for navigation but as a
nuclear detonation detection system. Add microwave ovens from radar,
Blu-ray discs from lasers, or Velcro and Tang from NASA, and there's no
doubt how much government acquisition programs have shaped our lives.

 Fuentes: [ The Wall Street Journal y Online Colleges ]