April 03, 2003  James Der Derian, principal investigator for the Watson Institute's InfoTechWarPeace Project, was quoted in the April 3, 2003, New York Times in the article "More Than Just a Game, But How Close to Reality?," by journalist Amy Harmon. In the Circuits Section, Ms. Harmon considers the perplexities of video war games as a training device for the military.

Professor Der Derian states in the article, "you can get so habituated to the gamed reality that the real reality, what's on the ground now, is thought to be artificial." He continues, "if the war doesn't go according to the game, you just keep trying to make it fit."

InfoTechWarPeace is currently preparing a Symposium on "The Dis/simulations of War and Peace: Predicting, Prophesying, and Preempting the Future after 911," which will explore how simulations, dissimulations, and prophecy predict, anticipate, and work to preempt the future. For more information about InfoTechWarPeace and its research initiatives, visit www.infopeace.org or contact Annick Wibben at Annick_Wibben@brown.edu or by phone at 401.863.7431.