Founder of Atari on Education

Pretty interesting take on the future of education from the founder of atari Nolan Bushnell:

“A lot is happening in the sphere of education, but at the same time change is very slow. How do you think technology can revolutionize education, and what is it that you are trying to accomplish?

The main thing with education is just do it bigger, faster, better. How can we teach kids more stuff in a shorter amount of time and with less money? One of the things people are doing, which I think is a false path is what I call “teacher in a box,” take a lecture and put it on the net.”

Well Nolan, I have to say I agree. Here is a link to the full interview

Atari game sells for $10,000

Absolutely insane. I am not sure why anyone would care to buy this. The game was made for atari by an independent person. The game was not even known to exist until someone bought it at a yardsale in 2007 and verified that it was real. I do get paying more money if someone found the original game disk from the company (like the test copy) for a popular game – and by more money I mean maybe $100 to a huge fan. But 10k on a game that no one will ever play and no one even knew existed?

Article here