Books vs. Video Games

Johnson, S.(2011). Games.  In S. Cohen, 50 Essays (pg. 196-202). Boston: Bedford St. Martins.

The essay "Games" by Steven Johnson describes the differences from reading a book to playing video games. Video Games promotes eye-hand coordination, but also promotes aggression and violence to conflicts. With that it also helps to increase your manual dexterity and visual memory. With reading though, it's hand to gain a different viewpoint due to the assumptions that the thought of it is boring in our mind. This on the other hand doesn't show the advantage of stretching your imagination while reading a book. Games are good at storytelling, but books give you information and mental work to process and store information. Reading books forces you to make a world in your head instead of going to a virtual world.

Well both reading and playing video games are in their own worlds. Video games are a world that the creators put in while the reading world is your endless imagination. Well as you can see in today's society, games are taking over books. People would rather be lazy and use other peoples imaginations, then their own. I mean we are depended on other people's imagination to entertain us rather, then making the mental effort to entertain us. Plus if we ever want to read, who needs a book that'll cost money, we have the internet to read the book off for free.