Herodotus: The Impact Of Games Influence On Modern Culture

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From the ancient Greeks avoiding thoughts of famine 2,400 years ago, to arcade cabinets in the 80’s, games have been a massive influence on modern culture and has had a significant impact on the interaction between human beings in every scientific, emotional, and physical aspects. Herodotus, The Father of Games 2,400 years ago, Lydia was in a nationwide famine. Panic and crime filled the streets in fear of what the next decade might bring. According to Jane McGonigal at the 2010 TED Talk convention in Long Beach, Florida, Herodotus, a Greek historian, was called upon by the King to solve this chaos. Herodotus responded in a rather unexpected way: dice games. A kingdom wide policy was created to favor from this solution. On one day, the people would eat, and on the next, they would play these new dice games. According to Herodotus, these games immersed people so much, they forgot about their next meal, and this went on for a astonishing eighteen years. The point of these games weren’t just to enjoy, but to escape the thoughts of reality and the suffrage of famine. Video Games …show more content…

But of course, everything was limited to the one factor of reality. Thus, the information age was the next step in media and entertainment. While some say the information age started as far back as 3,000 B.C. with Sumerian pictographs meant to represent words, many consider the true start to be the 12th of September, 1958 A.D., when Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments demonstrated the first integrated circuit. With this, the Technological Revolution began, introducing satellite television in 1962, the personal computer in 1970, the first e-mail sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson, and so

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