Are video games the single most important driver of technology

>>57622730
There are lots of scientific research applications that benefit from technological advancement, rarely in the GPU sector but faster CPUs are always welcome.

We might reach a point where CPUs are so fast and so cheap we can just cure cancer like it's nothing. Shit like folding@home will save our race, so um yeah I suppose.

>>57622742
What's updoc?

>>57622730
You have a good point.

missile delivery systems

>>57622730

Architecture and scientific research (especially medical) both benefit from technological advancements. I would imagine far more funding is channeled into medical technology than gaymen.

>>57622730
>>>/v/

/g/ is dead.

This is what happens when we open the flood gates for wintoddlers and pretend their toddler toy video gaming computers and their relevant gaming OS has anything to do with technology. Turning this place into a babycare fruity toddler gamerbabby hugbox was a terrible mistake.

Pretty sure video games main role in life is to keep as many sheep as possible dulled down and dumb towards reality, just another form of control by the elite.

>>57622854
>>57622779
Source: my ass.

>>57623083
Art is also used to make people see past the lies

>>57623373

Yeah, but the problem with that is, a lot of people are now beyond the point of saving; they see art and just see a picture, don't realise the truth that is there in front of them.

Probably will have to end this here as it's more a /pol/ subject, but technology, whether it be phones, games, computers, the media and any other sort of gadget, are all used as a means of control on the masses, and it turns everyone oblivious to the real fucked up state of the world.

>>57622730
Anything video editing related

for graphics processing: undoubtedly.

Porn

>>57623060
good post

Video games actually inhibit technology. They enable other software developers to bloat and not optimize their work, by holding all software to insane gamer standards, allowing more flexibility for others to fuck shit up.

>>57625039
Also, many video games boil down to a 500MB process, with 50GB of unnecessary sounds and textures. So for GPUs, sure, they're driving that market. But CPUs aren't going anywhere past Moore's Law.

>>57622730
The only thing relevant to the drive of technology is war and rare earth elements, not entertainment.

>>57622730

video games are fucking nothing compared to defense

>>57624996

This right here.

Porn has driven just about every technological revolution since the 1500s.

>>57622730
War is

You are literally retarded. Kill yourself.

>>57622730
Porn. Porn is the deciding factor on what technologies live or die.

>>57622730
How about heterogeneous computing?

>>57622827
Gotem

>>57622742
>>57622812
>>57622827
Samefag?
>>57622854
This.
>>57623436
Art is commonly an agent of ideology. Flip, philosophy is not better.
Games and gadgets don't push an agenda; they are pure dull joy.
Neither idealism nor materialism is compfy but medicine and GMOs are.
Progress must be comfy, thats why you sleep in a bed.

>>57625305
Not an argument.

>>57622730
>Is there anything more important than video games?
Defense, it's the only reason the computer systems that enable video games and your ability to shitpost on 4chan exist. Everything we use take for granted came out of DARPA.

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is this the new anime thread?

>>57622730
Business software.

>>57622730
social networks are the drivers of technology

>>57622730
Nope. It's War and will always be War.