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# Freeman Dyson reminds us that hand-eye coordination means more than skill.
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/freeman-dyson-reminds-us-hand-eye-coordination-means-more-skill/
- Published: 2012-07-06T13:30:33.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T14:59:14.000Z
- Description: What’s unique to the audience of the videogame medium is that there’s a medium within the medium: the hand. Games revolutionize how we interact, and tools revolutionize the world. Or this is how Freeman Dyson, treasured (and lambasted) 88-year-old physicist and mathematician at Princeton (who’s been
- Author: Kent Szlauderbach
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What’s unique to the audience of the videogame medium is that there’s a medium within the medium: the hand. Games revolutionize how we interact, and tools revolutionize the world. Or this is how Freeman Dyson, treasured ([and lambasted](http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/magazine/29Dyson-t.html?ref=killscreen.com)) 88-year-old physicist and mathematician at Princeton ([who’s been called “heir to Einstein,” but is weirdly skeptical of global warming](http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/12/the-danger-of-cosmic-genius/8306/1/?ref=killscreen.com)) sees it in his 1999 book, *[The Sun, The Genome, and The Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolution](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0195139224/ref=as%5Fli%5Fss%5Ftil?tag=llewtan-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=0195139224&adid=1MZBT8KY7MBS52H7Y1NZ&&ref=killscreen.com).*

> In technology every human culture, the hand and the brain work together to create the style that makes a civilization.