Bring On the Bushnell!

It's official. "Architechts of Tomorrow, Volume 2" just went off to my editors at "CPU" magazine for their feedback and (hopefully) approval. Only a little bit of formatting left to go, and then almost 55,000 words of amazing, new interviews with a dozen of computing's brightest minds will be available for the ridiculously low price of 99 cents. More on that later.


For now, I leave you with this tidbit from Atari founder Nolan Bushnell:

CPU: I spent probably one-quarter of my grade school years connected to [an Atari] 2600. So being a parent and having seen an entire generation of kids like me intoxicated with consoles, do you feel there’s such a thing as excessive or counterproductive gaming?

Bushnell: Absolutely. In fact, there’s some pretty good evidence that excessive game play is not good for kids, but moderate game playing is extremely good for kids. You find kids are much better problem solvers. They’ve shown some actual jumps in measured IQ for game players. But if they start exceeding two hours a day, then you see a serious drop off in other knowledge acquisition. I think that it may in fact drop kids’ curiosity factors and their patience. I try very hard to limit my kids to two hours.

CPU: Do you succeed?

Bushnell: Intermittently.

Amazon Reviewer Arth Denton Strikes Again

I just wanted to give a shout out to top-ranking Amazon review Arth Denton, who voluntarily plugged "Architects of Tomorrow" in a recent press interview. Check out his other eclectic selections. I'm gonna have to jump on those Twain titles soon. And off the record, a humble extra thanks to Mr. Denton for allowing me to see my book mentioned in the same sentence with a national bestseller ("The Hunger Games"). That really made my day.

Stay tuned for some blog overhaul within the next couple of weeks. I finished "Architects of Tomorrow, Volume 2" over the weekend and will be providing plenty of new content here soon!