ゲーム脳 - suneoHairWax

旧ソ連では「テトリス」を兵隊にやらせる。「テトリス」をやっている状態の脳は、非常に反射的な状態になり、人を殺しても何とも思わなくなる。その訓練のために「テトリス」をやらせていたのである。

↓のドキュメンタリー監督インタビューをみると、どう考えても経済的・技術的インプリケーションしか持ってないと思うんだけど（情報源id:Tigerlily:20040209#p3）。

Everything about its development links so closely into that era's political and economic context. If it hadn't been for that moment in history Tetris would have been nothing. For a start it needed a certain level of technology to have ever been developed but it also needed that moment of political opening up to creep across the Iron Curtain and become a success in the West.
BBC Four: Despite those changes the documentary shows just how vast the gap was between the East and West...
MT: They were still very much stuck in the culture of the old ways. The institutions in the Soviet Union were only just being set up to deal with commercial enterprises. It actually took a few smart individuals such as our Mr Belikov. What struck me was how quickly they took up the game of capitalism and managed to play the different Western companies off each other in quite an audacious way. They were very open about the fact that basically, they were being complete sharks.