{"id":2051,"date":"2009-01-01T11:13:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T09:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2009-01-01T11:13:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T09:13:01","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=2051","title":{"rendered":"happy new year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>randform wishes a happy new year to everybody!<\/p>\n<p>just be careful &#8211; in particular given the rather bleak economic outlooks it will get even more easy to loose oneself in dreamworlds, so I wouldn&#8217;t wonder if the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/global-games-industry-sales-68-3-billion-by-2012-says-report\">boom of the game industry<\/a> is going to continue. In this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/talks\/david_perry_on_videogames.html\">TED video<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/seriousgamesblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/ted-david-perry-will-videogames-become.html\">serious games<\/a>) David Perry describes the evolution of video games, however of special interest in this video may be an -what he calls opinion of a student- which is a (realistic?) documentary about a self acclaimed video game addict (second part of the talk, the whole talk is about 20 min). The documentary describes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=727\">cognitive changes<\/a> which are due to excessive video gaming. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>randform wishes a happy new year to everybody! just be careful &#8211; in particular given the rather bleak economic outlooks it will get even more easy to loose oneself in dreamworlds, so I wouldn&#8217;t wonder if the boom of the game industry is going to continue. In this TED video (via serious games) David Perry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5,16,4,15,33,26,10,8,6,17,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}