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Though I didn't start playing video games as early as recommended in this article, I made up for that lapse with volume. And I had the advantage of learning the technology as it was developed - how many other people can boast of having spent hours and hours playing Pong in an arcade? Or playing Space Invaders the day it came out? "In addition to mastering movement in natural space/time, today's young people have to master cyber space/time. So if they hope to move easily through the Internet, they also must begin to play video games at age 3 or so. Why? Because the Internet is a giant video game, with striking parallels between the two."

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