The game is making people actually get up and walk around.
We need more of that.
7 years of pontificating, nagging, and preaching by the White House to get people moving has been useless.
7 days of a private enterprise giving people incentive to go for walks as a family and no one can shut up about it.
How about just go for a walk without your phone?
Try to think deeply, enjoy nature, and relax...
As for children, take their electronics away and make them play sports.
For sure. But people getting up and walking around have to have common sense about where they're going.
It’s an artificial reality. We need less of that.
The game is a derivative of “Ingress”, which is a location based (GPS) game that’s been around for a few years. All of the “locations” (Pokestops) in the Pokemon game are from Ingress, just repackaged in a different game.
My point....this isn’t anything new. I played Ingress in DC and visited these “portals” (as Ingress calls them). The originator of Ingress created the game specifically to get his kids up, out and about - instead of playing games on the couch.
I don’t think it is disrespectful at all. It gets you out and looking at things you might not have otherwise. I’ve found many memorials, historic sites, etc. in my own town that I’d no idea existed from playing Ingress.