Deal

Jamais Cascio at WorldChanging blogs about the Serious Games Summit, held in DC last week. Basically these are simulations that are used as educational and training tools in various professions, not least the solidery - war games go back a long way, after all. Cascio takes the progress reported at the conference as a challenge for people to develop comparably sophisticated games that have environmental issues as themes. Compared with writing (not to mention testing) an atmospheric general circulation model, writing a good environmental interaction module for Civilization IV should be easy enough.