That PoGo Genius
Hats off to the creators of Pokemon Go. The transformation is amazing!
My summers are consumed in the long evening hours waiting at my daughter's rehearsals for what ever fantastic show our local theater group is producing. One thing I have observed, and never questioned is that the quaint historic down town business district where the theater is located is generally dead after 5 pm. Businesses are closed, and other than the faint strains of conversation from either the one bar, or the one restaurant, an occasional homeless wanderer, or occasionally the Hispanic teens practicing quinceanera dancing in the park, the town is predictably void of humans.
Well Pokemon Go has changed that.
The first one I saw--I just knew what he was. It was closer to 5 pm, so it was still daylight, and he was the only one. He didn't look like the usual "type" I saw around, and he constantly glanced at his phone, then looked up and around. Then around 10:30 they came in droves. The transformation was incredible.
Dead streets were crawling with hundreds of males (I hear elsewhere there are females as well) looking at their phones. And all the PoGoers looked the same. Stalking alleys and carrying phones.How cool is this? Nerd culture redefined.
I am a little creeped to allow an app to have any control over my phone's anything, so I may not be playing myself any time soon, but I am intrigued and yes, tempted.
Meanwhile, I will continue to get a kick out of the genius of getting the other wise sedentary Geek-Oriented Millennials off their comfy bums.
How will this impact my students interaction with their education this fall?
