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One Giant Leap for Ender’s Game

22nd February 2005, 11:41 am

http://sptimes.com/2005/02/20/Worldandnation/Did_the_Army_get_out_.shtml

Ignore the arguments about whether this was a good use of money, I really don’t think $5M is a lot of money for the army to spend on… anything, anymore, relative to their run-rate for expenditures on active combat duty. The interesting thing I find about this article is that they actually ship the army version and the commercial version on the same disc to consumers. Consumers get access to actual army training tools for $50. This just seems like a big giant leap towards Ender’s Game.

(spoiler, if you haven’t read Ender’s Game and plan to.. stop now.)

The only thing about Ender’s Game was that it was a surprise to the kids that the game was controlling real ships in a real war. In our reality, I think the new volunteer army will be people buying a $50 game and knowingly participating in warfare after school and on a lunch break. No surprises, just credit for college or, at least your name in the high-score list.

Once again, sci-fi shows us the path, eh?

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