[throwaway89201]

Thanks a lot for posting this. I agree that many of the points still hold, and as a (small business) author of educational software, reinforce my ideas about what that software should look like, especially concerning open-endedness and "capable of doing senseless things if asked".

I do think that the arguments about violent games either seem a bit dated or simply don't hold at all beyond operant conditioning. Especially in Europe, children or adults are hardly in the position that such 'reptilian brain' conditioning matters.