PS2 teaches soldiers to control robots
Conventional wisdom has it that videogames are only good for rotting our minds and compelling us to go all postal if someone gives us a dirty look. Well at least one organization has taken a different view of the popular medium: the U.S. military has started using PlayStation 2 consoles to train soldiers in the art of controlling unmanned robotic vehicles. In Alabama for a presentation to the Decatur Rotary Club, Col. Edward M. Ward told the audience how he brought 200 PS2s to Iraq to sharpen his men's hand-eye-coordination for guiding the bots in their mission to locate and detonate explosive devices. See, it's all very clear now: videogames don't cause kids to kill, rather, they teach them to operate killer robots.
[Via The Raw Feed]
