"Games" By Steven Johnson

           

In this essay Johnson argues that videos games can improve child development. Videos games allow kids and teens to be in touch with new experience,  in a three dimensional way without exposing them into emotional or physical damage. It improves your visual memory and manual dexterity.  He also clarified that reading is the best way to gain knowledge and improve or intelligence, because through reading we exercise all our cognitive functions; encoding and saving the information that we are receiving and then retrieve it. Both videos games and books required concentration and attention, so maybe videos games does help. From my point of view I think video games have its advantage, but kids get obsess with those games that they forget about the books or anything else outside the three dimensional unreal world. Johnson explains that in an imaginary world where video games where invented before books, people will prefers games and they’d think that books can lead people to isolation, because they will only focus on paper and words, in the other hand videos games are an open world. However video games can also lead kids and teens to isolation, because the unreal world, where you can be whoever you want and do whatever you want is so much better than reality.