War Simulation, Overpopulation, and Impossible Equations
War Play: Video Games and the Future of Armed Conflict by Corey Mead
The nutshell: Mead, a professor of English at Baruch College, explores the role of video games in the military-entertainment complex and the influence America’s armed forces have had on the country’s technology and education.
Literary lovechild of: Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game and James Paul Gee’s What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy.