Nolan Bushnell - famous for inventing the videogame Pong, founding Atari, and starting the Chuck E. Cheese restaurant chain - is hard at work launching E2000, a 35,000-square-foot complex in Burbank, California, that features networked game rooms, digitized dining theaters, a Web pub, and facilities for teaching computer-education classes during the day. "By using revenue from entertainment uses to subsidize the facility and equipment, we can deliver computerized education to the masses at the lowest cost possible," Bushnell says. He even promises that 20 percent of E2000's computer time will be given away to kids from low-income families. If everything works out as planned, an E2000 facility will open in Silicon Valley by next year. -
Todd Lappin
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