Couch warriors: how video games aren't helping the military win the war on terror.(From Sun Tzu to Xbox )(Book review)

From: Washington Monthly | Date: October 1, 2006| Author: Klein, Avi | Copyright information

From Sun Tzu to Xbox By Ed Halter $16.95, Thunder's Mouth Press

In 1973, a reporter for Rolling Stone visited the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab to check up on computer hackers--"a mobile new-found elite, with its own apparat, language and character, its own legends and humor." Although much of the nation's investment capital for computer science came from military and government sources, the reporter found the hackers--the term was not yet a pejorative--mainly co...

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