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Digital Technology, General

Resistance isn’t futile

A new computer game teaches the strategies of non-violent resistance/conflict. Intriguing. From the web site “A Force More Powerful : The Game of Nonviolent Strategy“,

Can a computer game teach players how to defeat real-world adversaries – dictators, military occupiers, and corrupt rulers – by bypassing laser rays and AK47s and choosing instead a non-military strategy and nonviolent weapons?

See Wired News: Sir, the Gamers Are Revolting! for an article on it.

In a similar vein newsgaming.com has a couple of flash-based games.