After reading an earlier post about the ways in which society’s leisure activities have evolved over the decades to a point where nearly every household has a computer, or three, I started wondering what if we went beyond the idea of professional sports being played online and took the idea out of the realm of entertainment and raised the stakes considerably. Instead of playing the game of Virtual Warfare…what if war really did go virtual. Think of how it would change the entire shape of the militaries around the world. Instead of spending millions on weapons that could, and one day probably will, wipe all every living thing on earth, they money would be going towards developing better, faster computers, better rendering software and graphics, etc. And unlike the missile sitting in an underground bunker somewhere, this would be something that we could all benefit from. And no more worrying if your loved ones are coming home in a pine box, wars would fought with might of the mind not the spilling of blood. Just think of the evolution of computer technology if funded by the mighty military dollars. Just a thought..something to ponder for us uber geeks I guess.



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