i think that's a grossly sub-optimal arrangement. we got VASTLY more bang for our buck out of the ARPA guys like Minsky, McCarthy, Kay, Sutherland, etc than we

i think that's a grossly sub-optimal arrangement. we got VASTLY more bang for our buck out of the ARPA guys like Minsky, McCarthy, Kay, Sutherland, etc than we ever did out of the gaming and entertainment industries, and we did it without exploiting the competitiveness and compulsiveness of children and children-at-heart edit: to be fair, some games have risen to the level of high-art, but I doubt many artists are going to complain about the pay or the effort when they know that they have accomplished such a thing