The most debased forms of mass diversion - video games and violent television dramas and juvenile sitcoms - turn out to be nutritional after all,

[Television is] demanding more cognitive engagement with each passing year, ... Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter.

Last year, we were able to get all the games on television.

It's not just television. It's television, games and recreational use of the computer. Our hope is that before the week is over [people] don't go back to four, five, six hours in front of a screen.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or the geopolitical strategy of games like Diplomacy, a kind of chess superimposed onto actual history.