© Phyllis Christopher, Writer Pictures
‘The problem is that people who like science and technology, and people who like storytelling and the arts have typically been placed in different buildings since about the age of sixteen. We haven’t been taught how to admire each others’ work, to recognise excellence, or even to know that there is excellence in “the other culture”. There’s a kind of sullen arrogance on both sides, with some people in both camps simply denying that the other knows anything worth listening to. There is a kind of “worthy” arts professional who thinks that knowing nothing about games – like saying
“I don’t even own a television!” – is a marker of intellectual superiority.’