U.S. Intelligence Will Train Super-Sleuths With Videogames
17th December 2011
Last week, the intel community’s blue-sky research group, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Iarpa), handed over $10.5 million to Raytheon BBN Technologies to start work on the Sirius program. The initiative aims to create a series of so-called “serious games” that’d help analysts improve their objectivity and reasoned judgment when confronted with complex or culturally foreign scenarios.
And about fargin time, too. Success comes from experience, and experience comes from failure. Better to fail in a virtual world, and learn thereby, than fail for real, and fail when it counts.