Nolan Bushnell: "School System Covered in "Unions and Bullshit" - Games Can Help
"All schools will end up using game metrics..."
What do you do after you've help invent Pong! and Atari and Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre? You totally rebuild the education system in the United States. At least that's what Nolan Bushnell wants to do.
Speaking at a recent conference, Mr B' stated, “I want to fix education in the world. As soon as I work on that, I am going to work on world hunger and then world peace.”
Of course, he expanded on this. Well, the schools bit, telling the audience that, “All schools will end up using game metrics in the future."
He also detailed why he wants education in the USA to change. “The public school system with its bureaucracy and unions and bullshit are stuck.
"The pressure is building. There will be an earthquake. That will happen with the bankruptcy of California in two years. There is no chance California will fix itself with unfunded pensions and runaway public sector costs. It’s going to be like Greece. We don’t have the European Community to bail us out. It’s going to have to be the federal government, but California is a huge economy.”
And to finish off this spate of megalomania, he brings in the Wii and the PS3, “Am I an ambulance chaser?” he said. “No. I will take advantage of an opportunity, called predicting the future. You may think I’m crazy. But I’m the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony’s PlayStation 3.”
Read more at VentureBeat.
Speaking at a recent conference, Mr B' stated, “I want to fix education in the world. As soon as I work on that, I am going to work on world hunger and then world peace.”
Of course, he expanded on this. Well, the schools bit, telling the audience that, “All schools will end up using game metrics in the future."
He also detailed why he wants education in the USA to change. “The public school system with its bureaucracy and unions and bullshit are stuck.
"The pressure is building. There will be an earthquake. That will happen with the bankruptcy of California in two years. There is no chance California will fix itself with unfunded pensions and runaway public sector costs. It’s going to be like Greece. We don’t have the European Community to bail us out. It’s going to have to be the federal government, but California is a huge economy.”
And to finish off this spate of megalomania, he brings in the Wii and the PS3, “Am I an ambulance chaser?” he said. “No. I will take advantage of an opportunity, called predicting the future. You may think I’m crazy. But I’m the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony’s PlayStation 3.”
Read more at VentureBeat.
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