Not only is Jon carmack not contributing to society, he is causing it's downfall. Is this a waste of a special and rare talent? Sadly, the answer is yes. Carmack could have been working for NASA or the US military, but instead he simply sits around coding violent computer games. Now stop for a moment and think, What would have happened if Albert Einstein had worked creating amazing pinball games instead of creating the theory of relativity? Humanity would suffer! Jon carmack is unfortunately doing JUST THIS, using his gifts at computer coding to create games instead of furthering the knowledge of humanity. Jon carmack has redefined gaming on PC's. He has also popularized the OpenGL 3d format over Microsoft's competing Direct3d format, as well as caused public interest in 3d cards when he first released accelerated quake for the s3 virge chipset. Jon has single handedly created the genre known as the first-person-shooter. Jon is the legendary programmer of such classic PC games as Wolfenstein, Doom, Duke nukem 3d, Quake 1, 2, and 3, unreal, and the upcoming doom3.
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